Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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I also don't think the London/Canadian city focus was a negative for the book as it served to strengthen her arguments and she offered multiple references to other works by feminist geographers and particularly feminist geographers of colour. Successful examples of this are evident in major European cities, such as Vienna and Paris, where urban planners, feminist designers, city dwellers and decision/policymakers come together and work on inclusive strategies such as on-site child and healthcare services, ‘redesigning areas to facilitate pedestrian mobility’ (47), as well as developing the accessibility of existing public transport facilities by being more sensitive to gender-specific needs. Here, it is crucial to mention that such an inclusionary approach to these questions is broad enough to encompass a variety of experiences, such as those of disabled women and trans women. While it is true that the opportunities offered by cities have favored the progressive participation of women in the job market, the struggle to conciliate their double days of paid and unpaid work is still real. For the most part though, it read like a beginner's rundown on intersectional feminism, for which I'd sooner recommend the even shorter and more concise Feminism for the 99%.

She has been living in Athens since 2019, working as a freelance architect on environmentally sustainable designs and collaborating with the office LandmArch on landscape and urban projects. Including women – across class, ethnicity, age, ability, and sexuality – into decision-making processes is paramount for such a transformation to occur.so many of these issues i knew on a personal level, but seeing them affirmed and verbalized blew my mind and made me look at the situation and all the possibilities in a different light.

Granted, sanitation isn't India's strong suit by a long shot, but that only 8% of all public toilets in New Delhi–the national capital–cater to women is a glaring statistic if there ever was one. Kern has a really clear view on any approach having to be intersectional and how a feminist city needs to be liberating for all. They "ask us to think about new ways to organize paid work, care work, and social relations…They invite solidarity from everyone who wants to feel safe in their homes, on the streets, in the bathroom, at work, and at school.The best thing about this book is the author’s emphasis on finding intersectional solutions to building a feminist city, solutions that should strive to help women of every race, class and ability. Thus, while I understand that the book is centred around self-reflection, the incorporation of urban feminist knowledge from the Global South would make the analysis more convincing and generalisable. 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. But interpreting this philosophy in terms of physical infrastructure design and public policy is an ongoing endeavor, which we will explore through this theme.

But it's a rather condescending approach – she admits that women poorer than her might feel differently, but if a woman has means to go to a restaurant, she must feel as threatened there as Kern does. It wasn’t at all what I was hoping for and I really struggled to follow the overall narrative clearly throughout the book. I wouldn't have necessarily picked this one up so soon had it not been for that and I actually found it really interesting. Leslie Kern has a very critical and astute set of observations throughout this book as it's broken down into various chapters that focus on motherhood, female friendship, safety, and more. According to the author, the possibility to ‘simply be’ in the public space tells us about who has their right to the city guaranteed, and who is instead considered ‘out of place’.Moje wydanie było tym najnowszym z analizą sytuacji pandemicznej na świecie i tego, jak wpływa/wpłynęła ona na kobiety/transpłciowekobiety/queerkobiety itp.

However, as also acknowledged by Kern, such solutions unfortunately did not last very long as they have been quickly replaced by neoliberal housing environments that rely on the underpaid labour of others as well as the ability to pay more for facilities and services, especially in the areas of care work and cleaning. She graduated in Architecture at the University of Cagliari in 2011 and obtained a Master of Science in Human Settlements at the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2014. The way Kern discusses the struggles and ideals of the ‘Feminist City’ by utilising her own experience in combination with urban scholarship and popular culture (e. While it is short, I felt the need for better editing at certain points in this book that got repetitive without offering new insight. Reha Atakan Cetin is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law at the University of Florida.It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and woman-friendly cities together. Salah satunya adalah dalam hal ruang gerak yang aman, nyaman, dan namun privasi tetap terjaga meski di ruang publik.