April 8. Space, Power, and Identity: Women, Children, and the City

Workshop: TBA 

Theory

Dolores Hayden, 1980. “What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work,” Signs 5(3): S170-S187.

Michael Brown and Larry Knopp, 2008. “Queering the Map: The Productive Tensions of Colliding Epistemologies,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(1): 40-58.

Marta Gutman, 2012. “The Physical Spaces of Childhood,” chapter 13 in The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World, ed. Paula S. Fass. London and New York: Routledge.

Cindi Katz, 1998. “Excavating the Hidden City of Social Reproduction: A Commentary.” City & Society 10 (1): 37–46.

 

Approaches to the Case Study: Gender in public places

Mary P. Ryan, 1990. “Gender and the Geography of the Public,” chapter 1 in Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Alison Isenberg, 2004. “‘Mrs. Consumer,’ ‘Mrs. Brown America,’ and ‘Mr. Chain Store Man’: Economic Woman and the Laws of Retail,” chapter 3 in Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum, 2017. “Gender Relations on the Subway,” and “Teenagers on the 7 Train,” chapters 6 & 7 in International Express: New Yorkers on the 7 Train. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Workshop

We will discuss how sexuality, gender, family, and reproduction shape neighborhood dynamics in Hunters Point/LIC and your research site. Methodological help may be found in: Maryanna Pavlovskaya, 2002. “Mapping Urban Change and Changing GIS: Other Views of Economic Restructuring.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 9:281-289.