Gendered and sexed geographies of/in a graduate classroom

Over 20 years ago, feminist and radical geographers urged members of the discipline to critically engage with questions of gender and sexuality in our research, in academic life and in the classroom. Classrooms, as geographical spaces are gendered, classed and sexualized in particular ways within po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Nash, Catherine J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:60744
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/60744
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/dag.863
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Feminism
Pedagogy
Queer theory
LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Queer)
Feminist geography
Sexuality
Feminisme
Pedagogia
Teoria queer (sexualitats alternatives)
LGBTQ (Lesbiana, Gai, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer) Geografia feminista
Sexualitat
Feminismo
Pedagogía
Teoría queer (sexualidades alternativas)
LGBTQ (Lesbiana, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer)
Geografía feminista
Sexualidad
Féminisme
Pédagogie
Théorie queer (sexualités alternatives)
LGBTQ (Lesbiennes-Gays-Bi-Trans-Queer)
Géographie féministe
Sexualité
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Sumario:Over 20 years ago, feminist and radical geographers urged members of the discipline to critically engage with questions of gender and sexuality in our research, in academic life and in the classroom. Classrooms, as geographical spaces are gendered, classed and sexualized in particular ways within power relations. Drawing on contemporary feminist pedagogies in geography, I critically reflect on an unexpected situation that arose in a North American Graduate course on social justice issues. In written course evaluations, student comments reflected a particularly gendered and sexualised set of expectations that stemmed, in part, from the nature of the classroom setting and the course content. In this paper, I examine how my experiences in this course illustrate that attempts to «gender», «sex» and «queer» the geography classroom have met with successes and setbacks that reflect particular historical and contextual circumstances.