2012-2013 Academic Catalog

May 02, 2026

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GEOG 136 - Gender and Environment

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

Explores how gender is reflected in the landscape, in our settlement and land-use patterns, in environmental history, and in our present ecological science and practice from the global to the local level. Combines lectures, readings, discussions, films and local field trips. Reviews feminist and other alternative explanations of the gendered nature of knowledge, access, use and control of space and resources in environments - past, present and possible. Regional focus on New England. Fulfills the Values Perspective.