Geography 212 - Care and Capital: A Feminist Geography of Labor

This course explores how gender, race, class, and power influence economies and are shaped by economics. Using feminist geography frameworks, we ask questions like: What defines a worker? What kinds of work are valued? How are money, care, and survival represented, challenged, and reimagined? Through case studies, discussions, and projects, students investigate how labor divisions are created and maintained, the production and consumption of commodities, and the nexus of gendered, racialized, and classed inequities. Additional course topics include global structures of work, the undervaluation of care and reproductive labor, and the cultural narratives that construct "the economy."