Description
Mapping a metropolitan movement for gender equality
Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place.” From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations based around care and justice.
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 pathways towards different urban futures. Feminist questions about safety and fear, paid and unpaid work, and rights and representation prompt us to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and open space to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.
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Rights Information
World rights available.
Rights sold: French, German, Italian, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Spanish in Latin America, Portuguese in Brazil, Russian, English outside Canada
Endorsements
“Deeply researched and whip- smart.”—Lezlie Lowe, author of No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
Author Biography
Leslie Kern is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship. She is associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Between the Lines
- Publication Date 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781771134576
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Pages216
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions4.75 x 7.5 inches
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