Gender and Space

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Gender identities and spatial experiences, mutually identify and transform each other. Within the scope of the course, the concept of "gender" by handling on the basis of body and space relation, the feminist movements that will be discussed from the past to the present, shaped the social, public and private space formations and the practices of space access and use of the genders.

Weekly Schedule

1) Gender of the space
2) City and Woman
3) Feminist Movements-I
4) Feminist Movements-II
5) Women's space, limits and violations from the Ottoman Empire to the present
6) Woman side of the migration and slums
7) Urban restructuring and gender: Planning urban without women
8) Infrastructures of daily life: gender of transportation
9) Gender aspect of urban poverty
10) House, gender of jobs and communities
11) Gender of social space
12) Gender of the urban administration
13) Presentations-1
14) Presentations-2
15) What to do?
16) Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Der. Alkan, A. (2009) Cins Cins Mekan, İstanbul: Varlık Yayınları.
2- Jarvis, H., Kantor P. ve Cloke J. (2012) Kent ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Dipnot Yayınları
3- DURU, Bülent ve ALKAN Ayten (Der. ve Çev.), 20. Yüzyıl Kenti, İmge, Ankara, 2002.
4- KURTULUŞ, Hatice (Der.), İstanbul’da Kentsel Ayrışma, Bağlam, İstanbul, 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Discussion
3) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Presentation/Seminar to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required