GEOG 2P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Planning, Industrial Society
9 Feb 2018
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Last lecture: mind/body dualism cartesian, natural vs socially constructed- bourdieu and foucault, implications political and social. Sex, gender and sexuality and the body: sex- regarded as determined by biology (male and female, gender- behavior: masculine and feminine, sexuality- homo or hetero. Home a brief history: gender and the built environment, preindustrial/industrials societies (west, gendered attributes of women. Industrial society- 19th and 20th century: privatization of family life, urban planning and home design, the second world war, women did a range of things- build planes, trucks etc. because men were gone, women out of the home. The meaning of home: shelter, hearth, heart, privacy, roots identity, where we come from, paradise. Life course and home: tenure- rent or own, life course- markers of success. Experiences of home: home as a site of work, post wwii ideologies of home", today- service industry and domestic. Locating homelessness: urban/rural, homelessness and services, stigmatization.
