'Doing Gender' at Body Worlds: Embodying field trips as affective educational experience

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-314

  Davidson, Joyce ^a   Huff, Leah ^a   Bridgen, Jen ^a   Carolan, Andrea ^a   Chang, Ashley ^a   Ennis, Katherine ^a   Loynes, Kathryn ^a   Miller, Jen ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body Worlds; Collaborative writing; Embodiment; Emotion; Feminist field trips; Gender

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; FEMINISM; GENDER ISSUE; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; HIGHER EDUCATION; RESEARCH; TEACHING;

EID: 70350350578     PISSN: 03098265     EISSN: 14661845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098260902742391     Document Type: Article

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