Gendering the City

Women, Boundaries, and Visions of Urban Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a gendered lens at how women utilize urban space. Focusing on the conceptual and methodological manner of boundaries, the book reminds us that women are members of multiple and diverse groups and as such, they can be active, creative, and powerful agents. Multidisciplinary essays, contributed by urbanists, geographers, political scientists, and historians, explore the ways in which women confront, break down, resist, and form new boundaries and interconnections, both visible and invisible. Arguing for a change in the traditional agenda of cities, the authors investigate how aspects of urban life and space would look considerably different if the alternatives and options presented by women and other marginalized groups were taken into account. They urge us toward a better understanding of how diverse social groups interact, how urban space can enhance such interaction, and what role formal and informal laws, by-laws, policies, and other planning measures should play.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2000-01-19
Mått146 x 227 x 17 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847694518

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Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Visible or Invisible? Gendered Urban BoundariesChapter 3 1 Not Named or Identified: Politics and the Search for Anonymity in the CityChapter 4 2 The Two Major Living Realities: Urban Services Needs of First Nations Women in Canadian CitiesPart 5 Part II: Intersections of Gendered Boundaries: Race, Class, and EthnicityChapter 6 3 Identity, Difference, and the Geographies of Working Poor Women's Survival StrategiesChapter 7 4 Boundaries Cracked: Gendering Literacy, Empowering Women, and Building CommunityChapter 8 5 Black Women as City BuildersChapter 9 6 Women Embounded: Intersections of Public Housing Policy and Welfare ReformPart 10 Part III: Challenging Planned BoundariesChapter 11 7 Theorizing Canadian Planning History: Women's Gender and Feminist PerspectivesChapter 12 8 Resisting Boundaries? Using Safety Audits for WomenChapter 13 9 Sex, Lies, and Urban Life: How Municipal Planning Marginalizes African-American Women and Their FamiliesChapter 14 10 Manipulating Constraints: Women's Housing and the Metropolitan ContextChapter 15 Epilogue: Cracks, Light, Energy

Gendering the City provides a significant contribution to urban studies, balancing critiques of domination with analyses of how groups and individuals have actively carved out spaces that resist and reconfigure dominant gender regimes. The collection draws on a wide range of empirical work, conducted in both Canada and the United States, to explore the diversity of women’s experiences. It is both grounded and provocative.