Combined with the author’s engaging content on popular culture through references to movies, television series and books, this makes Feminist City enjoyable and accessible to a more general audience. He has postgraduate degrees in Political Science and European Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the London School of Economics and Political Science respectively. Muito interessante ter uma perspectiva melhor sobre geografia feminista, cidadania feminista e urbanismo feminista - antes sequer sabia que esses conceitos existiam e após essa leitura, consigo entender os motivos e sua importância. Blending scholarly insight with personal experience and notes from popular culture, the author explores how the ways in which we navigate work, motherhood, friendship, activism, violence, and being a woman at large is shaped by cities that are built to exclude our bodies. In her insightful book, Feminist City, Leslie Kern explores the gendered landscapes of urban life, asking the reader to consider what our cities would look like if they were designed with the needs of working women and dual-working couples in mind.

Throughout the book, she often doubts whether urban policy can truly serve as a tool for change as she sees the risk of reiterating existing inequalities and the tendency towards privatization. As an alternative vision, I suggest that ‘gender mainstreaming’ strategies that have emerged in the European context might be more promising.

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. While she is very right to point out the gendered structures that can harm protest movements, this inability to see the very direct and often difficult consequences of meaningful protest robs the idea of its history. The very fact that I felt the need to book a women-only hostel room to avoid assault or uncomfortable situations. 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. Under this intersectional approach, there are several conceptual debates that contribute to the urban feminist literature.

It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together. Despite that, some fascinating insights about urban political geography, and the potentialities - as well as limits - of urban design in realising substantive equality. A geographic perspective on gender offers a way of understanding how sexism functions on the ground. Kern has a really clear view on any approach having to be intersectional and how a feminist city needs to be liberating for all. Reha Atakan Cetin is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law at the University of Florida.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.

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment/women's and gender studies and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Some of this content overlapped with Caroline Criado-Perez' incredible Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, which I would recommend for a more thorough, all-encompassing perspective. I appreciated how ably and interestingly Kern surveyed and summarized lots of work around gender and city planning. In Feminist City Leslie Kern analyzes what physical, social, and economic barriers women encounter in their everyday urban life and points out alternative scenarios that work for all. As a result, as Kern mentions, queer women, trans and non-binary people attempt to seek alternative ways for establishing inclusive spaces as an essential part of their urban survival.Except for a few pages, for instance, there is no detailed analysis of how environmental pollution and climate change affect women’s experiences in urban areas.