cities of the global south reader sparknotes

Throughout five major chapters, Kern comprehensively utilises an intersectional feminist intervention to examine how ‘women still experience the city through a set of barriers – physical, social, economic, and symbolic – that shape their daily lives in ways that are deeply (although not only) gendered’ (5). Starting from an analysis of gendered aspects of the urban space, Kern aims to bring ‘women’s questions’ into the discussion by combining her own biographical experience, feminist urban scholarship and popular culture.

In Feminist City: Claiming Space in the Man-Made World, urban feminist geographer Leslie Kern delves into these inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities. In turn, cities become the major spheres of inequality and oppression that further shape the ways in which these groups experience public and private life.

Despite some progress, women, disabled people, people of colour, gender and sexual minorities, immigrants as well as Indigenous communities are still being marginalised and excluded from decision- and policymaking processes. Historically, urban spaces have been the centres of uneven power relations, oppressive socio-political structures and exclusionary and discriminatory practices. įeminist City: Claiming Space in the Man-Made World. This is an enjoyable and accessible book that not only contributes to urban feminist geography, but to urban planning and policy more broadly, write Reha Atakan Cetin.

In Feminist City: Claiming Space in the Man-Made World, Leslie Kern delves into the interlocking inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities, using an intersectional feminist approach to explore the gendered aspects of urban space.

Cities of the global south reader sparknotes