Feminist City by Leslie Kern

Women - Reclaim the city!
What should 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.

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. She 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. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.

In addition to physical barriers, Leslie Kern draws attention to the intersections of classed, racial, and cultural barriers with those of gender and sexuality. The focus on intersectionality is a highlight of the book, incorporating an honest appraisal of Leslie Kern’s own involvement in activism that may have excluded others

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