GENDER AND LANDSCAPES
Part I: Gender, embodiment, space
What is gender?
What does it mean to say something is gendered?
GROUP TASK
How does gender relate to space and power?
Give me 5, write them down so I can upload them.
What is gender?
What does it mean to say something is gendered?
GROUP TASK
How does gender relate to space and power?
Give me 5, write them down so I can upload them.
Please watch this video. What from these resonates with you?
How about our reading:
1. Siemiatycki et al
2. Criado Perez
What is/are the author/s trying to say? [what is the ARGUMENT?]
How do they say or show it? [Methodology or Approach]
What does it say about space and power/ place/ landscape? [Significance].
And can you think of 3 spaces in Austin that fit in with their arguments about gender and space?
1. Siemiatycki et al
2. Criado Perez
What is/are the author/s trying to say? [what is the ARGUMENT?]
How do they say or show it? [Methodology or Approach]
What does it say about space and power/ place/ landscape? [Significance].
And can you think of 3 spaces in Austin that fit in with their arguments about gender and space?
What do I do with this?
Taking it into the field:
Thinking about….
Embodiment
“Bodies are not just the subjects of medical and natural sciences: bodies shape who we are and are always connected in some ways to the world we live in. Not all bodies are equally valued or treated equally: some bodies are valued more than others.”
Woodward, Kath. "Gendered bodies: Gendered lives." Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies (2015): 97-113.
What kinds of body differences are at play in space, in landscape?
When and where are different bodies in/out of place?
Emotions and affect:
“By taking seriously women’s experiences of space and place, and treating the personal as political, feminist geographers were alert not only to the emotions and feelings that women experienced in particular places and spaces, but also to how emotions framed and circumscribed sexed and gendered experiences of place and spaces.
Feminist accounts of subjectivity, to be sure, were now diverging from humanist accounts. Where humanistic [accounts] tended to posit a coherent, bounded, self‐aware and universal human subject, feminist geography was illuminating the incoherences, permeabilities, opaquenesses and specificities of human subjectivity.”
Pile, S. "Emotions and affect in recent human geography." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, no. 1 (2010): 5-20.
What do we call this?
Embodiment and space, place
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
Taking it into the field:
Thinking about….
Embodiment
“Bodies are not just the subjects of medical and natural sciences: bodies shape who we are and are always connected in some ways to the world we live in. Not all bodies are equally valued or treated equally: some bodies are valued more than others.”
Woodward, Kath. "Gendered bodies: Gendered lives." Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies (2015): 97-113.
What kinds of body differences are at play in space, in landscape?
- Gender
- Race
- Dis/Ability
- Age
- Class
When and where are different bodies in/out of place?
Emotions and affect:
“By taking seriously women’s experiences of space and place, and treating the personal as political, feminist geographers were alert not only to the emotions and feelings that women experienced in particular places and spaces, but also to how emotions framed and circumscribed sexed and gendered experiences of place and spaces.
Feminist accounts of subjectivity, to be sure, were now diverging from humanist accounts. Where humanistic [accounts] tended to posit a coherent, bounded, self‐aware and universal human subject, feminist geography was illuminating the incoherences, permeabilities, opaquenesses and specificities of human subjectivity.”
Pile, S. "Emotions and affect in recent human geography." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, no. 1 (2010): 5-20.
What do we call this?
Embodiment and space, place
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
Next Week: Indigenous (in)Austin
We will have a field trip to Shoal Creek. Meet at the Seiders Oaks Site (Shoal Creek Trail between w. 34th and w. 38th) at 5:30pm
Our guest lecturer will be the magnificent Dr. Hi'ilei Hobart.
In preparation, please read:
• Steve Houser, Linda Pelon, and Jimmy W. Arterberry. 2016. From: Comanche Marker Trees of Texas. Texas A&M University Press.
• Gary Clayton Anderson. 2019. (“Introduction: Demythologizing Texas.” In The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. University of Oklahoma Press.
We will have a field trip to Shoal Creek. Meet at the Seiders Oaks Site (Shoal Creek Trail between w. 34th and w. 38th) at 5:30pm
Our guest lecturer will be the magnificent Dr. Hi'ilei Hobart.
In preparation, please read:
• Steve Houser, Linda Pelon, and Jimmy W. Arterberry. 2016. From: Comanche Marker Trees of Texas. Texas A&M University Press.
• Gary Clayton Anderson. 2019. (“Introduction: Demythologizing Texas.” In The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. University of Oklahoma Press.
