Social Change, the Status of Women and Models of City Form and Development

Burnett, Pat

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.1973.tb00575.x

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“…In the same year as Zelinsky's demographic stocktake, Pat Burnett and Irene Bruegel began the infusion of a more explicitly radical and socialist feminist position into the discipline (Burnett, 1973 andBruegel, 1973). Burnett's indictment of geographers concerned not only their neglect of women in traditional models of the city but their neglect of 'structural relations in society-class, sex and race' and their inability to incorporate social change.…”

Section: Janice Monk (Associate Professor Of Geography At the Universmentioning

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Gender, genetics and the possibility of feminist geography

Johnson

1985

Australian Geographical Studies

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In a recent review article on the state of the geographical art, Jeans and Davies (1 984) mentioned women four times: as potential or actual paid workers (pp. 16, 18) and as actual or potential writers of geography (pp. 20, 22). The absence of any serious consideration of women as geographers or as the special focus of geographical study is no surprise in a review article-for there is little work to report on. However, the omission of any references to this situation or any assessment of what has been left out of the last decade of geographical work in Australia perpetuates the problem. Geography silently continues to claim a universal focus when in content, method and purpose it is primarily concerned with the male experience. Over the last ten years the neglect of women in anthropology, sociology and philoxphy h-s been recognised and all have been revitalised by an injection of feminist thought. Geography has lagged behind this trend but is now fitfully going through the phases of criticism and reconceptualisation experienced by other disciplines. The first phase began in 1973 with women's absence from the profession and its theories noted in a number of papers published in North America. The second concurrent phase has produced a small body of literature concerned specifically with including women in geographical knowledge. It was recognised in this phase that studies of 'human behaviour' had more often been of male behaviour and were therefore not gender neutral. Gender specific studies of, for example, consumer behaviour or of the journey to work thus undermined many of the models of 'human behaviour' devised previously. The third phase has barely begun in geography. This phase involves a critique of the epistemology and status quo politics of geographical knowledge using the insights and political objectives of the women's movement. This article will be concerned with detailing these three phases, considering whether singly, or together, they constitute 'feminist geography'. My sources will be that body of literature written by geographers in accessible, discipline-oriented publications. PHASE ONE-WOMEN'S ABSENCE IN GEOGRAPHYAs a discipline, geography is distinguished by its concern with the spatial relations of 'man and the environment'. In the early 1970s it was recognised that 'man' in this phase was not a generic term but an accurate description of the discipline's demography and research bias (Mazey and Lee, 1983,51). Two sets of papers appeared in 1973 in quite different geographical journals in the United States which heralded this new awareness. These papers signalled two of the directions feminist critiques in geography would take-one set by Wilbur Zelinsky in a conservative journal, the others by Pat Burnett and Irene Bruegel in the newly established 'radical journal of geography', Antipode.

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Section: Janice Monk (Associate Professor Of Geography At the Universmentioning

confidence: 97%

Gender, genetics and the possibility of feminist geography

Johnson

1985

Australian Geographical Studies

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“…Bu anlamda başlıca çalışma konuları, ev içi işbölümü ve mekânsal organizasyon, ev içindeki iktidar ilişkileri, kadınların fırsat ve hizmetlere erişimi (eğitim, ücretli istihdam, sağlık hizmeti), kadınların iş yerlerine ulaşımı, kamusal mekânlardaki rol ve etkinlikleri, kamusal alanda hayatta kalma stratejileri vb. olarak sıralanabilir Monk and Hanson, 1982;McDowell, 1979;Wilson, 1977;Bruegal, 1973;Burnett, 1973).…”

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Tuncer¹

2012

Fe Dergi Feminist Ele

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“…Intense discussion also took place around the Union of Socialist Geographers (USG), a group dominated by activist graduate students in Canada, the USA, and Britain, which thrived for most of the 1970s. As a perusal of early Antipodes or of the USG Newsletter quickly reveals, analytical discussion of class evolved amidst a staggeringly eclectic concern with Black power and Western nationalisms, native Americans and remote sensing, feminism, community, cultures of nature (Donaldson, 1969;Blaut, 1969;Anderson, 1969;Goodey, 1970;Bunge, 1971;Doherty, 1973;Burnett, 1973;Hayford, 1974;Galois, 1976) as well as a healthy dose of self-reflexivity (Eichenbaum and Shaw, 1971), and much more. It was a heady time and the debates that swirled had a disturbingly familiar content from the vantage point of the present (Katz, 1999), even if the style seems occasionally arcane and lacking sophistication, but the vital historical point is that these venues represented the only place in geography where such debates, radical proposals, and avowedly political analyses, whether about class or race or gender, could get into print.…”

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What Happened to Class?

Smith

2000

Environ Plan A

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A 1998 television advertisement in the United States featured cool teenagers in stylish gearöbaggy jeans, tee shirts, tank topsögyrating through a gritty urban landscape with maximal bodily attitude. The backbeat was rap and the deliberately cryptic 15-second spot was one of a series of`social conscience ads' melding a multinational brand name's attire with deep social and political meaning. The message was diversity: Asian and black kids, white and Latino, male and female. The style was modern noir, jarringly black and white in a habitually splashy multicolour medium with movement and anticipation expressed via myriad shades and tones of grey. Against the images of bodily movement the screen began pulsatingöBarbara Kruger styleöthe blocked words``RACE'',``GENDER'',``ETHNICITY''. I casually expected the voice-over to deliver some pat multiculturalism about respecting diversity, but it didn't. Instead there came a much more edgy rap about DIFFERENCE which could be read in rather contradictory ways. Difference was to be respected even celebrated öthat was clearö but was it a difference of equals or unequals? Was it a difference of engaged political activism of the sort embodied in the best social justice movements? The brassy dancing in the streets made this plausible even likely. Or was it a celebration of difference that simply assumed equality across sharp identitarian lines, equality as a philosophical given unhinged from any social struggles that might achieve or protect equality and rights: difference, in fact, as separationöseparate but equal? The deliberate choice of stylized, seemingly representative social identities öone of each flavouröand the equally discrete differences between clothing styles made this less palatable essentialism equally plausible. The advert was no call to antiracist or feminist street action, much as it absorbed the possibility of such a reading, and it made no mention of sexual preference.

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Social Change, the Status of Women and Models of City Form and Development

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