Sex, Gender, Space and Place

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course examines, from interdisciplinary perspectives including those of Women's and Gender Studies, Geography, and Environmental Studies, relationships among sex, gender, space and place in societies, cultures, environments, and ecosystems. Selected relevant topics are considered, such as ecofeminism, the cultural politics and political geography of sex and sexual identities, the gendering and sexing of city landscape and architecture, notions of public and private space, and the space/place in the sociocultural construction of femininity and masculinity. We consider how sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other aspects of identity affect the transformation of space into place. Cross-listed: ENV-2416(3) and WGS-2416(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and ENV-2416 | WGS-2416. Requisite Courses: GEOG-1105 or GEOG-1102 or GEOG-1103, or ENV-1600, WGS-1232 or permission of the instructor or permission of the chair [prerequisite(s)].