Category: Course Material
The term, “patriarchy,” like the term, “feminist” can illicit strong feelings and/or confusion. Our challenge in Geographies of Gender was to learn to listen deeply, to challenge our…
Resistance to social structures that encourage competition instead of authentic relationship are challenging, but rewarding. This is an example of such resistance – a collective of individuals in…
Queer geographies is another branch stemming from the early days of feminist geography that employs feminist and queer methodologies. Queer experience in academia is also often one of…
Experiencing sexual violence on campus leads to a lack of feeling safe on campus and a reduction in being able to focus, show up, and engage. This is…
Example of article exploring how race and gender intersect…
Embodied Knowledge: Refers to how bodies are experienced. The ways people make sense of their experiences, and themselves, cannot be separated from competing and contradictory discourses through which…
The quote above was from the 18th Century, a period that coincided with the development of “modern geography,” the enlightenment, science as we think of it today, and…
Feminist Geography came to be less of a theory and more of a core methodology with a political aspect – feminist methodology is about confronting and changing social…
Key articles, voices, ideas, and moments in geographical theory sparked the emergence of feminist geography as a subdiscipline. These foundational ideas are the roots of what was to…
One of the things that resonated with me during our talk about non-hierarchical organization was the concept of fractals – that we should be asking, on the most…
bell hooks was a well known, loved, and respected black feminist author who wrote extensively on the patriarchy and its impacts to all genders.