Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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In this rich, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the "city of men" into a city for everyone. Reha Atakan Cetin is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law at the University of Florida. But feminist perspective has always offered some kinds of alternative scenarios, whereas Kern becomes extremely vague when she tackles possible solutions. The overall effect is to assemble a morality of feminist approaches to thinking about cities, whether in cultural discussions or elsewise.

Even though most of my experience was restorative and adventurous and exciting, there was always a part of my brain that I couldn't switch off—the portion bracing myself for harassment or violence.

These housing developments focused on the collective needs of lower-income communities with shared spaces for cooking, housework and childcare.

Aku sendiri cukup tercengang dengan banyaknya data yang diberikan oleh Kern, mengatakan kalau ruang publik masih "merampas" privasi mereka yang bukan laki-laki berkulit putih. Parker’s Masculinities and Markets (2017), in which Parker suggests the concept of amplification that refers to the ‘intensity of racialized women’s work, life, and bodily experiences’ (119).Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics. On the other hand, more examples are needed, both from the Global North and South, to point out new possibilities for overcoming these inequalities.