In complement to Celia’s most recent post, this article explains well how over-representation of men in city street name constitute a privilege for the dominating gender: “I can’t imagine how I might have conceived of myself and my possibilities if, in my formative years, I had moved through a city where most things were named after women and many or most of the monuments were of powerful, successful, honored women.”
Radical geographer Bill Bunge in the 1970’s studied Detroit in the attempt to reveal social inequalities within the city. This map shows the location of reported rat bites as a manifestation of poverty.
This Paper entitled “Their Spirits Live within Us Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Emerging into Visibility” by Dara Culhane demonstrates the production of invisibility of Aboriginal women in the Downtown Eastside and how those women resist this invisibility. Interesting article picked from the reading list of my GRSJ elective course.
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