Mapping

Project Guidelines!
DUE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2ND

For the Interviews and Maps
For this project go to a place on campus that people tend to go and congregate.
When you get there, take note of the surroundings: what are people doing? Do
female appearing people appear to be doing something different than male
appearing people? Approach 3 to 5 (THREE to FIVE) female or male appearing
people and conduct brief interviews with them. Please do the following during the
interview:
1) Ask for name (use any name they like, does NOT need to be their real name!)
2) Age
3) Gender Identity
4) Ask them to draw you a map of the space from the perspective of their
gender identity (if they get confused, reassure them they can draw whatever
they like, however they like, and in whatever fashion they like. THERE IS NO
RIGHT OR WRONG WAY! If they need a clear goal ask them to If a guy asked
you where he should go or do when here, what would you include?)
5) When they finish their map, ask them to describe what they drew: what did
they include? Why did they include it? How do they see men and women
using the space differently?
6) THANK THEM!

In your Paper:

Your paper should be 3 to 5 pages in length (THREE TO FIVE). This does NOT
include your cover page (if you choose to include one) or a bibliography/works
cited page (which you are REQUIRED to include). Your paper should be written
double-spaced in 12-point font in a standard font type (Times, Courier, Cambria,
etc). Please note: the page minimum requires 3 FULL pages (with print
reaching to the bottom of the page)

What to include:

You should explore the following in your paper
a) describe the place you went
b) explore the maps (what did they include?) and interviews (what
did they say?)
c) Discuss how and when gendered expectations came up in either
context
d) Discuss how this discussion links to issues of ideology, hegemony,
gendered expectations and so on as raised in the readings (you
must provide at LEAST one citation)

How to structure your paper:

A paper should always have a clear thesis statement of which tells the reader
what your paper will be about. This generally comes at the end of your introduction,

which gives us a very general introduction to the topic. For example, your
introduction may read something like this (thesis statement is underlined)

Many students go to the main dining hall on campus to eat lunch and dinner.
Students have a wide variety of food choices in the dining hall. Where students
ultimately decide to eat is guided by a number of factors. Gender, in particular, may
relate to where students eat. I explore here, through maps and interviews with four
students, how gendered expectations might impact where one eats.



The content of your thesis statement can then guide how the remainder of
your paper is set up. In the above example the flow of your paper may look
something like this:

Paragraphs 1-3: Background and Data

Discussion of each person spoken with and the content of their maps (each
paragraph beginning with its OWN thesis statement; Joe, a male identifying 19-year
old drew me a map of the dining hall including a variety of fast food options).

Paragraphs 4-6: Discussions

Bring together what was said with the goal of the paper (exploring gendered
expectations in space). This is where you bring in the materials from class about
ideology, gender and so on. How might gendered expectations impact space or why
we go where we go?

Paragraphs 7-9: Conclusions

This is where you bring it all together. Remind us what you looked at (begin
with a reworked thesis statement). What does this tell you about gender and space?
Were there any major differences between the maps? Where these differences
aligned with age or gender identity? REMEMBER: you are NOT expected to discover
any major findings or declare any truths. The goal here is so simply EXPLORE the
topic. If all of your maps look exactly the same and you cant find gender anywhere,
what does this tell us about gender? What does this tell us about space? Think
outside the box!