Feminist Geography: Theoretical Approaches
Examines key debates and practices in feminist political geography, focusing on power, difference, embodiment, and social change within liberatory projects.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the major trajectories of feminist perspectives in (political) geography.
Gain the ability to discuss some of the relationships between feminist geography and broader feminist inquiry and politics.
Gain the ability to develop feminist questions for research and/or action relevant to your project.
Explain the relevance of feminist theory, methods, and/or practice to your project.
Explore how issues of difference and positionality inform your project and study of geography.
Articulate key debates over feminist (geographic) theory for your field and directions these debates suggest for your thesis or dissertation research.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
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Topics
- Power, difference, embodiment, and social change.
- Intersections with critical ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, and decolonization.
- Liberatory projects addressing racism, capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.
- Transformations of political geographic concepts like territory, boundaries, sovereignty, and violence.
- Difference and positionality in geographic study.
Skills
- Describing major trajectories of feminist perspectives in political geography.
- Discussing relationships between feminist geography and broader feminist inquiry and politics.
- Developing feminist questions for research or action relevant to a specific project.
- Explaining the relevance of feminist theory, methods, and practice to a project.
- Exploring how issues of difference and positionality inform geographic projects.
- Articulating key debates over feminist geographic theory for thesis or dissertation research.
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