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✨Book Review✨
Feminist City by Leslie Kern
(released 7.7.20 from Verso)
Publisher Summary:
Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think differently about city spaces and city life.
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.
My Review:
In all of my gender studies I don't believe I have ever heard the term "feminist geography" before reading this book. I loved the analysis and thought-provoking concepts I had previously not considered such as how (and by who) a city is set up and sustained, city layout as social control, gentrification vs "revitalization", as well as new thoughts about street harassment, affordability, sustainability, and accessibility.
✨Book Review✨
Feminist City by Leslie Kern
(released 7.7.20 from Verso)
Publisher Summary:
Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think differently about city spaces and city life.
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.
My Review:
In all of my gender studies I don't believe I have ever heard the term "feminist geography" before reading this book. I loved the analysis and thought-provoking concepts I had previously not considered such as how (and by who) a city is set up and sustained, city layout as social control, gentrification vs "revitalization", as well as new thoughts about street harassment, affordability, sustainability, and accessibility.
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