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Feminist City


Engels | 01-06-2020 | 224 pages

9781788739818

Hardback


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Women - Reclaim the city!

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 women 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 Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern 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 an intersectional feminist 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 women-friendly cities together.

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“Visionary, intelligent, and humane, this book offers intersectional insights into the gendered nature of the modern city to promote ‘living more justly in an urban world’ … A timely, thought-provoking study.”

– Kirkus

Details

EAN :9781788739818
Auteur: 
Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Publicatiedatum :  01-06-2020
Formaat :Hardback
Taal :Engels
Hoogte :205 mm
Breedte :135 mm
Dikte :22 mm
Gewicht :274 gr
Voorraad : Bestelbaar
Aantal bladzijden :224