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WGSS COURSES
WGSS 294.01 (same as GEOG 294.01)
Gender, Place, and Culture
Instructor Katrinka Somdahl-Sands
W 7:00-10:00
CAR 107
*First day attendance required.* 
THE COURSE:
This course is intended to familiarize the student with the various topics, interests and debates within feminist geography. Over the course of the semester we will investigate how gender relations shape different spaces and places. We will also look at how we 'read' power relations by exploring the symbolic and material construction of spaces/places. Specifically the class will ask: how do gender, race, class, and sexual orientation intersect to produce differing experiences of particular places? We will approach these questions from a variety of scales, including the body, home, state, and environment. This class stresses the importance of these geographic questions to our everyday lives. The course begins by asking what feminism has to do with geography; we then discuss the tools used by feminist geographers before we explore a series of sites expanding out from the body from the local to the global.
Required texts:
- McDowell, Linda, Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Domosh, Mona and Joni Seager, Putting Women in Place: feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. New York: Guilford Press, 2001.
- Seager, Joni, Penguin Atlas of Women in the World.
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