This course stems from a discussion which
argues that throughout history and across cultures, architectural and
geographic spatial arrangements have reinforced status differences between
different gender identities, and, thus aims to examine the relationship between
space, place and gender from an interdisciplinary feminist perspective by
focusing on the current debates in urban theory, social history, feminist
geography, architecture, gender and cultural studies. Feminist postmodern
critique of modernist either/or distinctions and the gendered manifestations of
these distinctions in different political and cultural contexts which created
exclusivist claims to places, and how these claims are both challenged and
negotiated by various social agents constitute the central discussion topics of
the course with a special emphasis on the global sense of the place within a
space-time continuum.