Co-Taught by:
Dr. Meghan Cope, Asst. Professor of Geography
LaDona Knigge, Ph.D. student in Geography

Click here for the Spring 2001 Syllabus

Course Description
This course in an introduction to gender and geography. It will examine the role of gender in the study of geography, which is concerned with places, linkages, patterns of flow, locations, landscape, the social/political/economic production of space, and all forms of spatial and temporal relationships.

Three levels of analysis will be covered:
 
• Geographies of Women (e.g. spatial patterns in literacy, spatial divisions of labor, other patterns of inequity)
• Gendered Geographies (how gender as a set of power relations influences the production and use of space, place, and landscape)
• Feminist Geography (feminist conceptualizations of space, importance of multiple axes of oppression - gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, etc on the production of social/political economic spaces.)

Expectations for Students
The course will include a combination of lectures and in-class exercises. Evaluation will be based on written work (short papers and critical reviews), class participation, a semester journal, and a final poster presentation on the topic of the student's choice. Students are expected to be engaged with the readings, the instructors, the other students, and the classroom dynamics in order to become a community of learners. Each student is expected to contribute to the class from his/her unique background of experiences while also considering a wide array of perspectives, theory, and research approaches.

 Required Books:

 McDowell, Linda and Joann P. Sharp (eds.) 1999. A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography. London: Hodder Headline Group.
 
 McDowell, Linda. 1999. Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 Women and Geography Study Group. 1997. Feminist Geographies: Explorations in Diversity and Difference. Essex, UK: Longman.

Jones, John Paul III, Heidi J. Nast and Susan M. Roberts (eds.) 1997. Thresholds of Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

 Recommended Books:

 Seager, Joni. 1997. The State of Women in the World Atlas. New rev. 2nd ed. New York: Penguin.

 Evaluation:

Four 3-5 page papers . . . . . . . . . . 80%
Class Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . 10%
Semester Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10%

 TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100%