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Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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An edition of Feminist City (2019)

Feminist City

Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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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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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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Feminist City
2020, Unrast Verlag
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Source title: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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Library of Congress
, HT361, HT361 .K47 2020

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hardcover
Number of pages
224

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL28317827M
ISBN 10
1788739817
ISBN 13
9781788739818
OCLC/WorldCat
1126544900

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Work ID
OL20905783W

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