Gender

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Gender bODY POLITICS, Gendered

spaces, feminist geopolitics

Wednesday, 27 March, 13

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Burqas & Islamic dressMasculinist protection

Spaces of care

Embodied power relations

Sex & Mobility

(in)security

Mobility in/through

inequality

Gender, not sexWednesday, 27 March, 13

Getting beyond binary thinking

With us Against us

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Public Private

Foreign Domestic

Here There

Global Local

Good Evil

Imagines space as complex, contingent

Sees binaries and dyadic divisions as artificial, created and produced.

Builds upon feminist world-views to critique the hegemonic processes of knowledge production--of world-making.

Is not a geopolitics about feminism specifically--though it can be.

Rather, feminist geopolitics is a critique that utilizes feminist scholarship to trouble “taken-for-grantedness” in the world around us.

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Feminist geographers want to critique and bring attention to the way women’s lives are made private, and the spaces women occupy as private by extension. They support leading men--as housewives, cooks, mothers, and secretaries--and so their range of possible contributions is narrowed. By contrast, men are put ‘out front’--as breadwinners and protectors.

Following up on our mobility discussion last week, there continue to be limits to mobility in access to work, positions of influence, or public prominence.

Conversely, we have plenty of examples of male titans of industry and protectors. (Batman as both, for instance).

Often women’s spaces and women’s experiences are shielded from public view. They perform a behind-the-scenes role that often goes unnoticed.

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women, through veiling, segregation, and limits on women’s participation in the public sphere.

Gender

Education