Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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Combined with the author’s engaging content on popular culture through references to movies, television series and books, this makes Feminist City enjoyable and accessible to a more general audience. At the same time, however, I police my own clothing, posture, facial expressions, and other cues to avoid male harassment" (114). I appreciated how ably and interestingly Kern surveyed and summarized lots of work around gender and city planning. However, gender mainstreaming is becoming a broader concept as there are many examples attempting to acknowledge the variety of needs of particular groups ( Clare Foran, 2013).

Kern maintains that cities are generally designed with white able-bodied men in mind and points out the deficiencies in cities that make it harder for women to live there. The very fact that I felt the need to book a women-only hostel room to avoid assault or uncomfortable situations.

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. Kern invites us to discover examples of feminist cities at the margins where communities self-organize to provide means of support and in public spaces where social movements prove how issues of violence, poverty, police brutality, and gentrification all intertwine.

Leslie Kern's Feminist City is a fine book that doesn't need my 2 cents on it, but here it is anyway. Women can never fully escape into invisibility because their gender marks them as objects of the male gaze. But interpreting this philosophy in terms of physical infrastructure design and public policy is an ongoing endeavor, which we will explore through this theme. I wouldn't have necessarily picked this one up so soon had it not been for that and I actually found it really interesting. She frequently references Black and Indigenous scholars (such as fellow geographers Katherine McKittrick and Sarah Hunt, and Indigenous scholar Kim Tallbear).Lastly, there is an omittance of contemporary debates around several major and pressing urban issues, including food (in)security and environmental struggles and their relevance to urban feminist knowledge production. Because, while the city is a place of opportunity and liberation - offering a range of employment types, exposure to diverse cultural experiences and education - it is unequally accessible depending on categories of gender, race, class and physical ability. Instead, she believes we ought to take a closer look at how cities perpetuate inequality from the perspective of race, gender, ability, and class. City of Friends' is a thrilling affirmation of the power of women's friendships, and touches on the importance of lesbian and queer community spaces as well.

While it is short, I felt the need for better editing at certain points in this book that got repetitive without offering new insight. The author talks a lot about intersectional identities as well and how it comes to play in navigating spaces. Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics. My very first realisation about how gendered inequities are built into urban landscapes came with a strong urge to pee–and no public restrooms for women in sight. Kern remarks that going out despite the internalized thought of potential harassment, silencing the discomfort caused by the ever-present male gaze, keeping mental maps of places to avoid, asking your loved one to text you when she gets home, are precious examples of resilience and solidarity.I'm sure it is meant well, and if the issues are separated they are easier to analyze, but I suspect that any familiarity with membership issues and First Nations governance would complicate Karn's suggestion. I've been thinking about, reading about, and writing about feminism all throughout my college career. Leslie currently lives in the territory of Mi’kmaqi in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick with her partner and their two senior cats.

From transportation to housing, to public spaces, cities sustain and reproduce existing dynamics of power.Through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. I enjoyed Kern's presentation of potent critiques against neoliberal feminisation of space, surveillance and carceral feminism, as well as her assertion that urban planning alone cannot address the severely undermined threat women face from people known to them. 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 proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. During the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in North America, cooperative housing developments emerged as part of feminist city design initiatives.



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