GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Lecture Outline

What is Gender?

• Gender vs. Sex

Gender and Geography

• Activity Segregation
• Public vs. Private Spheres

Case Study: Middle-class Suburban Housewives 1850-1920 in the Northern and Midwestern U.S.

• The middle class housewife in 1850
• Suburbanization
• Demographic change and social mobiltiy
• The rise of Domestic Science
  • Commodification of Domestic Labor
  • Domestic Technology
  • Consequences for Daily Life

   

  Men?
• Sexuality