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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.

ISBN-13: 9781788739825

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Verso Books

Publication Date: 09-14-2021

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.77(h) x 0.61(d)

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Preface x

Introduction City Of Men 1

Disorderly Women 2

Who Writes The City? 6

Freedom and Fear 10

Feminist Geography 13

Chapter 1 City Of Moms 22

The Flâneuse 23

A Public Body 26

A Woman's Place 29

The City Fix 33

Gentrifying Motherhood 38

The Non-Sexist City 45

Chapter 2 City Of Friends 55

Friendship As A Way Of Life 56

Girls Town 62

Friendships and Freedom 69

Queer Women's Spaces 76

Friends 'til The End 78

Chapter 3 City Of One 87

Personal Space 88

Table for One 91

The Right to Be Alone 96

Women in Public 99

Toilet Talk 106

Women Taking Up Space 112

Chapter a City Of Protest 115

Right to The City 117

Diy Safety 123

Gendered Activist Labour 127

Activist Tourism 133

Protest Lessons 137

Chapter 5 City Of Fear 142

The Female Fear 144

Mapping Danger 148

The Cost of Fear 150

Pushing Back 153

Bold Women 158

Intersectionality And Violence 161

City Of Possibility 166

Notes 178

Index 193

About The Author 207