Geography & Gender

GEO 426

Spring 2001

Mon. & Wed.  1:00 - 2:20

106 Wilkeson Quad, Ellicott Complex

 
Dr. Meghan Cope

Office: 118 Wilkeson Quad, Ellicott Complex

email:  mcope@geog.buffalo.edu

 LaDona Knigge, PhD. student

Office:  4th Floor, Ellicott Center #401 (please knock at outer door) Office #408  Office Hours:  Wed 3:30-4:30 or by appointment

email:  lknigge@acsu.buffalo.edu

Required Texts: Available at North Campus Book store and on-line at your discretion.

Women and Geography Study Group. (W&GSG) 1997. Feminist Geographies: Explorations in Diversity and Difference.  Essex, England: Longman Limited.

McDowell, Linda. 1999. (GIP)  Gender, Identity & Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

McDowell, Linda and Joanne P. Sharp. 1999. (FGHG)  A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography.  NY: Oxford University Press.

Jones, John Paul III, Heidi Nast, Susan Roberts. 1997.  (TIFG) Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation.  Lanhan, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Schedule of Readings and Discussion Topics:

Section I:  Introduction and Historical Perspective

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Week 1:

Jan. 17

 Overview of course. No readings.
Week 2:

Jan. 22

W&GSG:  Chapter One:  Introduction, pp. 1-12

TIFG: "Introduction: Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation", pp. xxi-xxxix

GIP:  "Chapter I: Place & Gender", pp. 1-33

FGHG:  gender, representation, power
Jan 24 **Women & Geography Study Group. 1997.  "Why Study Feminist Geography?"  Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings, L. McDowell & J. Sharp, editors, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 19-23

**Connell, R. W. 1997. "Gender as a Structure of Social Practice"  Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings, L. McDowell & J. Sharp, editors, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 44-53

FGHG: feminist geography, representation, masculinity/masculinities/masculinism, 
Week 3:

Jan 29

 W&GSG:  "Chapter Two: Contested & negotiated histories of feminist geography", pp. 13-48.

**Bondi, L. 1990. "Progress in geography and gender: feminism and difference"  Progress in Human Geography. 14(3), pp.438-445.

FGHG:  difference
Jan. 31

Journals due

**McDowell, L. 1997.  "Women/Gender/Feminisms: doing feminist geography."  Journal of Geography in Higher Education.  21(3), pp. 381-410

**Longhurst, R. 2000. "Geography and gender: masculinities, male identity and men", Progress in Human Geography, 24(3), pp. 439-444

FGHG: power, scale
Feb 5: Paper #1 due - Short reading: see Section II

Section II:  Methodology

Week 4:

Feb. 5

 TIFG: Hanson, S. "Introduction to Part 2: As the World Turns:  New Horizons in Feminist Geographic Methodologies", pp. 119-128

FGHG:
Feb. 7 W&GSG:  "Chapter Three:  Gender in feminist geography", pp. 49-85

**Lawson, V. 1995. "The Politics of Difference: Examining the Quantitative/Qualitative Dualism in Post-Structuralist Feminist Research", Professional Geographer, 47(4), pp. 449-457

***Kwan, Mei-Po. 1999. "Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using Space-Time Measures", Professional Geographer, 51(2), pp.210-227

FGHG: feminist methodology, object/objectivity, time geography
Week 5:

Feb. 12

 

 W&GSG:  "Chapter Four:  Methods and methodologies in feminist geographies: politics, practice and power", pp 86-111

TIFG: Oberhauser, A. "Chapter 9: The Home as 'Field': Households and Homework in Rural Appalachia", pp 165-182

FGHG: household, housework, fieldwork
Feb. 14 TIFG:  Nagar, R. "Exploring Methodological Borderlands through Oral Narratives", pp. 203-224

**Gilbert, M. 1994. "The politics of location: Doing feminist research at 'home'. The Professional Geographer. 46(1), pp. 90-96

**Elwood, S. & M. Martin. 2000. "'Placing' Interviews: Location and Scale of Power in Qualitative Research", Professional Geographer, 52(4), pp.649-657

FGHG: autobiography, ethnography

Feb. 19

 Paper #2 due, short reading:  See Section III

Section III:  Gender, Space and Work

 Week 6:

Feb. 19

 

 **National Committee on Pay Equity (1995)  "The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts" in Race, Class and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, Rothenberg, P., editor, NY: St. Martin's Press, pp. 144-150

FGHG: division of labor
Feb. 21 Journals due

W&GSG:  "Chapter Five:  In and out of bounds and resisting boundaries: feminist geographies of space and place", pp. 112-145

**Massey, D. 1994.  "The Shape of Things to Come: The changing composition of the workforce", Space, Place, and Gender, Minneapolis: University of Minn Press, pp. 67-85

FGHG:  
Week 7:

Feb. 26

 AAG in NYC - LaDona gone

GIP:  "Chapter 5: Work/Workplaces", pp. 123-147

**McDowell, L & Gill Court. 1997 "Missing Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Merchant Banking" in Space, Gender & Knowledge: Feminist Readings.  McDowell, L. & J. Sharp, editors, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 368-383

FGHG:
Feb. 28 AAG in NYC - LaDona gone

Video: The Global Assembly Line (1986)

Video:  The Double Shift  (1997)

FGHG:
Mar. 5 & 7 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
Week 8:

March 12

 **Gilbert, M. 1998. "Race, Space and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women". Annals of the Association of American Geographers.  88(4), pp 595-621

**Johnston-Anumonwo, Ibipo. 1997.  "Race, Gender and Constrained Work Trips in Buffalo, NY, 1990". The Professional Geographer.  49(3), pp. 306-317.

FGHG:
March 14 TIFG:  Samarisinghe, V.  "Chapter 7:  Counting Women's Work: The Intersection of Time and Space", pp. 129-144

TIFG:  Ahrentzen, S. "The Meaning of Home Workplaces for Women", pp. 77-92

FGHG: time geography
Week 9:

March 19

 Paper #3 due

Discussion - no readings

Section IV:  Gender, Space and the City

 March 21 Journals due

**Gilbert, M. 1997.  "Feminism and Difference in Urban Geography", Urban Geography.  18(2), pp. 166-179.

**Ruddick, S. 1996. "Constructing Difference in Public Spaces: Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems", Urban Geography, 17(2), pp. 132-151

FGHG:
Week 10:

March 26:

 GIP:  "Chapter 4:  Community, City and Locality", pp. 96-122

**Cope, M. 1996. "Weaving the everyday: Identity, space and power in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1920-1939", Urban Geography, 17(2), pp 179-204

FGHG:
March 28: **Bondi, L. 1998.  "Gender, Class and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscape", Urban Geography.  19(2), pp. 160-185

GIP: Chapter 6: "In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure", pp. 148-169

Week 11:

April 2

 *Pain, Rachel.  1991.  "Space, sexual violence and social control:  integrating geograhical and feminist analyses of women's fear of crime".  Progress in Human Geography.  15(2), pp. 415-431.  *(copy will be provided in class)

**Peak, L. 1997. "Toward a Social Geography of the City: Race and dimensions of urban poverty in Women's lives", Journal of Urban Affairs,

April 4 W&GSG:  "Chapter 6: Feminist geographies of environment, nature and landscape", pp. 146-167

**Bondi, L. 1992. "Gender symbols and urban landscapes", Progress in Human Geography.  16(2), pp. 157-170

FGHG:

April 9

 Paper #4 due

Discussion - no readings

Section V:  Gender, Space and Politics

Week 12:

April 11

 Journals due

**Domosh, M. 1998. "Those 'Gorgeous Incongruities': Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York City", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88(2), pp. 209-226

**Hays-Mitchell, M. 1995. "Voices and visions from the streets: gender interests and political participation among women informal traders in Latin America", Society and Space, 13(4), pp. 445-470 

FGHG:
Week 13:

April 16

 TIFG: Pulido, L. "Chapter 1:  Community, Place, and Identity", pp. 11-28

TIFG:  Meoņo-Picado, P. "Chapter 15:  Redefining the Barricades: Latina Lesbian Politics and the Creation of an Oppositional Public Sphere", pp. 319-337

FGHG:
April 18 TIFG:  Walter, B. "Chapter 16:  Gender, 'Race', and Diaspora: Racialized Identities of Emigrant Irish Women", pp. 339-359

**Radcliffe, S. 1993. "Women's place/El Lugar de Mujeres, Latin American and the politics of gender identity" in Place and the Politics of Identity, Keith, M and S. Pile, editors, London: Routledge, pp. 102-116
Week 13:

April 23

 **Staeheli, L. and S. Clarke.  1995. Gender, Place, and Citizenship", Gender in Urban Research, Garber, J. and R. Turner, editors, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp. 3-23

**Kofman, E. 1995. "Citizenship from some but not for others. Spaces of citizenship in contemporary Europe", Political Geography, 14, pp. 121-137 
April 25 Journals due

GIP: Chapter 7: "Gendering the Nation-State", pp. 170-202
Week 14: Last day of class - Paper #5 due
May 1-2 Reading Days
May 3-10 Finals 

 

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