Feminist City - Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Verlag | Verso |
Auflage | 2021 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 14,7 x 1,5 x 20,1 cm |
Gewicht | 188 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781788739825 |
Bestell-Nr | 78873982UA |
Women - Reclaim the city!
What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment.
Through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. She maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.
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This original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender. Empirically grounded in the intricacies of the condo market in Toronto, it both adds to, and updates, the pathbreaking work around gendered critical urban analysis. An accessible and incisive text that will no doubt instigate future discussions Loretta Lees, Cities Group, Department of Geography, King's College, London [for Sex and the Revitalised City]