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Feminist city / Leslie Kern

Kern, Leslie, 1975- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Verso, 2020

VIII, 204 Seiten : 1 Porträt

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Feminist City / Kern, Leslie (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-78873-981-8

978-1-78873-983-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-78873-984-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1183727767     

LB 44610  | MS 1750  | MS 1830  | ZH 9130      Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 74.72 (Stadtplanung; kommunale Planung) ; 71.31 (Geschlechter und ihr Verhalten)

*Stadtplanung ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Feminismus ; Frau ; Aneignung <Psychologie>      Zum Register

 

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.