HSS647: Geographies of gender and sexuality

        [Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]

Course Outline

The course will explore contemporary debates on the mutual constitution of space, place, gender and sexuality. It will investigate (through readings, lectures and fieldwork) processes through which gender and sexuality are spatially constructed. Field research leading to a term paper form a significant portion of the course. The following themes will be covered:

1. Sex, gender and identity, Gendered social relations
2. Theory of performativity
3. Intersectionality
4. Sexuality, gender and city spaces
5. Body, home, nation and global as scales of analysis
6. Emotional geographies
7. Feminist political ecology
8. Feminist geopolitics
9. Queering geography
10. Auto-ethnography and feminist research methodologies
11. Feminist pedagogy
12. Masculinities

Recommended Reading

• Oberhauser, Ann M., Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Sharlene Mollett, Feminist spaces: gender and geography in a global context, Routledge, 2017.
• Massey, Doreen. For space. Sage, 2005.
• Domosh, Mona, and Joni Seager, Putting women in place: Feminist geographers make sense of the world, New York, USA: Guilford Press, 2001.
• Massey, Doreen. Space, place and gender. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
• Staeheli, Lynn, Eleonore Kofman, and Linda Peake, Mapping women, making politics: Feminist perspectives on political geography, Psychology Press, 2004.
• Bell, D. and G. Valentine, Eds, Mapping Desire: geographies of sexualities, London, Rout- ledge, 1995.
• Recent articles from relevant journals such as Gender, Place and Culture: A journal in Feminist geography (Taylor and Francis); Progress in Human Geography (Sage); Emotion, Space and Society (Elsevier) will be assigned as readings along with selections from the above texts.