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Feminist city : claiming space in a man-made world / Leslie Kern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kern, Leslie, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and women.
- Feminism.
- City and town life.
- Urban women.
- Urban policy.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Feminist theory.
- Feminist geography.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn : Verso, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would 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. In The Feminist City, 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. And offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern 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.
- Contents:
- City of moms
- City of friends
- City of one
- City of protest
- City of fear
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kern, Leslie, 1975- Feminist city.
- ISBN:
- 9781788739832
- 1788739833
- 9781788739849
- 1788739841
- Publisher Number:
- 99986150723
- EB00787590 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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