Situationist Space

I thought McDonough’s essay Situationist Space did a great job analyzing Guy Debord’s map of Paris titled The Naked City. He first identifies that The Naked City was no ordinary map, this is obvious because The Naked City is a collage “composed of nineteen cut-out sections of a map of Paris printed on black ink…linked by directional arrows printed in red.” He argues that this map is figured as a narrative rather than a map used as a tool. McDonough compares Debord’s map with the famous map of the Plan de Paris to make his argument. McDonough’s essays sets out to prove The Naked City is not just “pure structure without individuation” as he used to describe the Plan de Paris map. McDonough made great emphasis on the fragmentation of The Naked City and how that created distinctions and differences within the city of Paris instead of having a homogenous space as seen in the Plan de Paris. These distinctions are important because he is arguing that these spatial differences are responsible for psychogeographic exploration.
McDonough essay seems to show the struggle Situationists had during the 1950’s in trying to restore the city’s fullness, richness, and its history that was eradicated due to the influence Haussmann had on Paris. He talks about Debord’s description of derive, which is a concept is meaning to drift. “Persons on the derive escaped the imaginary totalizations of the eye and instead chose a kind of blindness.” Again McDonough stress that the city of Paris should not be seen as a homogenous space, but instead, looking at the city in a new way.
Questions: what is McDonough talking about when he writes “a view that is more over genedered as masculine, from which a feminized space is perceived?”
Who exactly were the Situationists?