FEMALE GENDERED BODIES AS SOCIAL RISK FACTORS: GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION FOR THE SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER VULNERABILITY AMONG YOUNG STUDENTS
Geographic Education, Social Risk, Gender Vulnerability
Geographic education aligned with geographic thinking and reasoning has the potential to contribute to the construction of a spatial perspective on the vulnerability of gendered female bodies. This stimulates spatial thinking and action, assisting in the development of perception and consciousness of the body-space relationship in the face of social risk. Therefore, this research is situated at the intersection of social risk, geographic education, and gender, exploring the contributions of geographic education to the spatial analysis of gender vulnerability. The study addresses the oppressive relationships that occur in geographic space, utilizing epistemologies that consider the spatiality of invisibilized and socially marginalized bodies. The main objective of this research is to construct a spatial perspective on the vulnerability of gendered female bodies, based on the recognition and experiences of a group of young students from the Doutor Garcia de Lima School, located in the Fábricas neighborhood in the city of São João del-Rei. To achieve this, a geographic educational journey titled 'Geoficinas: gender vulnerability' was developed into seven modules and taking into consideration the geographies, spatialities, and daily lives of the 1st-year high school female students. This educational journey is grounded in the principles of geographic reasoning and the contributions of feminist geographies' epistemologies. By employing action research methodologies and the analysis of geosymbolic spaces, the research examines the voices, perceptions, experiences, and narratives of the young students regarding the spatiality of social risk generated by gender inequality.