Feminist City. Leslie Kern
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Название: Feminist City
Автор: Leslie Kern
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Техническая литература
isbn: 9781788739832
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“Feminist City is a damning stab at the subtle and overt manipulation of women in urban spaces. Kern’s interwoven references to her personal experience through childhood, adulthood, and motherhood make her deeply researched and whip-smart work infinitely readable. Kern shows that the ability of all women to exploit the city fully is a valuable, necessary gauge for city worth.”
—Lezlie Lowe, author of No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
“How do we begin to reckon with and ultimately reimagine our public realm in the #MeToo era? We can start by lifting up a greater diversity of experiences and voices that influence our thinking about what makes a place equitable, fun, accessible, safe, and dynamic for all. Kern’s exploration is honest, timely, and intentional in acknowledging the work of women—fellow urbanists and others—in advancing the feminist city.”
—Lynn M. Ross, AICP, urban planner and feminist
“Feminist City is the next-generation urbanism book I’ve been waiting for! Leslie lays out a comprehensive guide to feminist world-building that our cities so desperately need. A must-read for all city officials and budding urbanists alike as we move into the female future of our urban environments.”
—Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, MUS, urban
anthropologist and adjunct professor, Lindy Institute
for Urban Innovation, Drexel University; co-founder
of The Women Led Cities Initiative
“Leslie Kern provides a refreshingly clear analysis of contemporary urban life. Feminist City seamlessly weaves together theory and lived experience, revealing again and again just how essential feminist geographic thought is to understanding urban space. Feminist City is a book to be shared and discussed by anyone who loves cities.”
—Lauren Hudson, SolidarityNYC
“This volume definitively establishes Kern as a leading and impassioned voice in the second generation of North American feminist urban geography. Kern deftly and refreshingly interweaves her personal biographical narrative and a synthesis of feminist urban scholarship to capture the tensions between city-as-barrier and city-as-possibility that continue to infuse so many women’s daily urban experiences.”
—Damaris Rose, honorary professor of social geography and urban studies, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal, Quebec
“I wish I could have read this book years ago. The experiences Kern reflects upon are ubiquitous, if not universal. Kern blends the best of academic literature with popular culture references to explore the ways in which urban space is gendered. Reading the book is a pleasure, like a deep conversation with a wise friend.”
—Winifred Curran, professor of geography, DePaul University
FEMINIST CITY
LESLIE KERN
This edition published by Verso 2020
First published in Canada in 2019 by Between
the Lines, Toronto, Canada
© Leslie Kern 2019, 2020
All rights reserved
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-981-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-983-2 (UK EBK)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-984-9 (US EBK)
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Author photograph by Mitchel Raphael
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