1. Gender bODY POLITICS, Gendered
spaces, feminist geopolitics
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2. Feminist geopolitics
Embodied power relations
(in)security
inequality
Body politics Gendered spaces
Mobility in/through
Sex & Mobility
Masculinist protection
Burqas & Islamic dress
Spaces of care
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3. Gender, not sex
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4. With us Against us
M
Masculine Feminine
Public Private
Foreign Domestic
Here There
Global Local
Good Evil
Getting beyond binary thinking
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5. Feminist Geopolitics
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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6. 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.
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7. Superheroes & Housewives
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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8. Purdah
A Islamic practice of protecting
women, through veiling,
segregation, and limits on women’s
participation in the public sphere.
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