Feminist City

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Women living in a man's city, where public spaces aren't designed for them, have a valid fear. The city needs to hear their voices. Women's relationship with the city is more complex than you realize.
Architects' blindness to women: The City of Toronto's "wind effects guidelines" assume a "standard human" whose height, weight, and surface area correspond exactly to an adult male. You'd never guess that gender bias influences the height and location of skyscrapers.
Women trapped in mental maps: “Why are you walking alone at night?” “Why did you take that shortcut?” Rape myths shape women’s mental maps and limit their movement.
Women who disappeared from history: "If we were to go back through the tunnel, we would always find a female flâneur walking past Baudelaire on the street."
Drawing on urban history, popular culture, and personal experience, feminist geographer Leslie Kern exposes what's hidden in plain sight: the inequalities built into our cities, homes, and communities.
Kern offers a vision of a "feminist city." Narrating fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and dangers of solitude, she charts a new path for a feminist city, one that will be more just, more sustainable, and more pro-women—one where women are not erased.

2024-07-28

上海人民出版社

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