Kern argues that women’s resilience should inspire the creation of a fabric of support made of denser neighborhoods with proximity to work and essential services to spread the care work more evenly. analiza miasta, tego, czym miasto jest, jak je interpretujemy, czego możemy od niego wymagać i jak możemy je zmieniać. Potrei potenzialmente leggere di geografia e urbanistica femminista per mesi e mesi (e probabilmente lo farò). Rather, most of this book is about women's experiences in the here and now, what life is like now, nd how women use those spaces.

In this regard, from being a mother to a ‘white gentrifier’, Kern successfully locates her own struggles, challenges and experiences in the city within urban feminist thinking. 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. For example, cities are not designed in ways to facilitate mothers with babies from no elevator access at some subway stations to few childcare centers near centers of work. A more revised approach to mainstreaming may include broadening binary gender categories, recognising the intersections of gender with other social dimensions of power and the development of participatory methodologies in line with these broader conceptualisations ( Rachel Tolhurst et al, 2012).We use cookies on this site to understand how you use our content, and to give you the best browsing experience. From the analysis of queer women’s spaces to racialised social movements, it adds scholarly value to the literature not only on urban feminist geography, but also urban planning and policy as well as the social sciences more broadly. This makes it unrealistic to apply one single solution or to have an overarching ‘master’ plan where there are ‘endless options’ (176). Aku sih inginnya semua membaca Feminist City agar menyadari kalau representasi itu begitu penting dalam semua aspek kehidupan manusia termasuk dalam tata kota.

She acknowledges that she is writing it from a cis and white pov, but she does address minorities in the city as well, even going into how white women form part of the policing of space. Although the higher risk of violence comes from domestic and work environments, women tend to fear public space and constantly negotiate to apply strategies of self-surveillance.I appreciate that the author was willing to point out that solutions weren’t always perfect and didn’t take a dogmatic approach to her position. This dearth of places for to relieve oneself is, both literally and figuratively of course, just the tiny, pointed tip of the iceberg that is the patriarchal city.