gender
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Gender bODY POLITICS, Gendered
spaces, feminist geopolitics
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Burqas & Islamic dressMasculinist protection
Spaces of care
Embodied power relations
Sex & Mobility
(in)security
Mobility in/through
inequality
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Getting beyond binary thinking
With us Against us
Masculine FeminineMasculineMasculine
Public Private
Foreign Domestic
Here There
Global Local
Good Evil
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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.
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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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P0r".1A Islamic practice of protecting
women, through veiling, segregation, and limits on women’s participation in the public sphere.
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