Main entry:

Kern, Leslie, 1975- author.

Title & Author:

Feminist city : a field guide / Leslie Kern.

Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Between the Lines, 2019.
©2019

Description:

viii, 204 pages ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
City of Men. Disorderly Women -- Who Writes the City? -- Freedom and Fear -- Feminist Geography -- City of Moms. The Flâneuse -- A Public Body -- A Women's Place -- The City Fix -- Gentrifying Motherhood -- The Non-Sexist City -- City of Friends. Friendship as a Way of Life -- Girls Town -- Friendship and Freedom -- Queer Women's Space -- Friends Til the End -- City of One. Personal Space -- Table for One -- The Right to Be Alone -- Women in Public -- Toilet Talk -- Women Training Up Space -- City of Protest. Right to the City -- DIY Safety -- Gendered Activist Labour -- Activist Tourism -- Protest Lessons -- City of Fear. The Female Fear -- Mapping Danger -- The Cost of Fear -- Pushing Back -- Bold Women -- Intersectionality and Violence -- City of Possibility.
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781771134576 (softcover)
1771134577 (softcover)

Subject:

Urban women.
Urban policy.
Sociology, Urban.
Feminism.
Feminist theory.
Feminist geography.
Urbanization.
Femmes en milieu urbain.
Politique urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
Féminisme.
Théorie féministe.
Géographie féministe.
Urbanisation.
urban sociology.
feminism.
urbanization.
Stadtplanung
Stadtentwicklung
Feminismus
Stadtsoziologie
Städtebaupolitik
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadt

Form/genre:

Paperbacks.
Creative nonfiction.
Essais fictionnels.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315125
Call No.: 315125
Copy: 1
Status: Available