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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherVerso UK
Release dateJul 7, 2020
ISBN9781788739832
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
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Leslie Kern

Leslie Kern is the author of three books about cities, including Feminist City: A Field Guide. She is an associate professor of geography and environment and women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Her research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. She is also an award-winning teacher. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vox, Bloomberg CityLab, and Refinery29. Leslie lives in Sackville, New Brunswick (Mi’kma’ki) with her partner and cats.

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    Easy to read and brisk, although frustratingly without real solutions to many of the identified problems. It's brief length leaves many ideas underdeveloped but is a useful primer on some areas I was only tangentially aware of.

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