Gender Flashcards
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Brownlow (2005)
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- Less attention made to problems in recent social discourse
- both genders experience threats and have vulnerabilities
- Men fear threats to their masculinity - and so may look over more obvious risks
2
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Coddington (2015)
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- Emerging look beyond gender as there are other intersections with it
- a focus on gender needs to be broken - feminist geographies
- colonial and imperial legacies have shaped researches and may avoid looking in non-former colonies
3
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Cox (2013)
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- Consumption at home creates work and is a form of work itself
- Consumption is tied to domestic labour, not excluded from the home
4
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De Koning (2009)
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> CS: Cairo, Egypt
- Middle class women- subject thats stirring discussion about class and social conditions
- women are selective with the spaces they use after fears of rising rape and murder crimes
5
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England (1993)
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- Women may be stopped from employment by their residential location and domestic responsibilities
- women, or Pink-collar workers, are becoming the focus of firms which may relocate to suburban locations
- focus in the USA
6
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Gilbert (1998)
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- Particular structures can result in the spatial entrapment of women
- however, this cane be enabling and restricting
- creation of networks which can be crucial in low-income neighbourhoods/scenarios
- struggles between power and space is more complicated than thought previously
7
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McDowell (2010)
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- Capitalism is gendered -> London is an ‘arena’ driven by sexualised and gendered scripts
- testosterone filled, risky chief executives
- each gender has particular roles to be fulfilled and this an go unchallenged.
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Valentine (1989)
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- Womens fear can dictate the use of public spaces
- Men and women perceive and experience space differently
- great intersects with other aspects: Age, ethnicity and disability
9
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Valentine (2003)
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- Many interconnections between gender and other identities
- gender is just one of many parts considered to form an individuals identity.
