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GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!
Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Greiner pp. 182-191
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): sexuality, gender, gender role, transgendered, heterosexual norm, pulbic space, geography and gender, gender gap,
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:Gender, Sexuality, and Geography

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
 

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