Feminist City
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Yazar: Leslie Kern
Brand: Sel Yayıncılık
Basım Tarihi: 2020
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Sayfa Sayısı: 197Boyut: 14.0 x 21.0 cm
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9786057728371
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Leslie Kern starts from the fact that urban planning and urban area designs focus on men, and that spaces allocated to women do nothing but reproduce heteronormative patterns. She then analyzes the meaning of experiencing the city as a woman, starting from her body, the first geography designed by men.
From the difficulty of moving around the city while pregnant or carrying a baby, to urban areas designed to hinder female companionship, to texting upon arriving home and pretending to talk to someone in a taxi, to the invisibilization of queer, lesbian, and disabled women, to the violation of the right to be alone, to the lighting of sidewalks—she presents with incredible clarity the difficulties women face in urban spaces and their ways of resisting them.
Kern points out that the city is constantly structured as a geography of danger for women, arguing that in addition to real threats, myths of danger also shape women's mental geographies, and that the fear created hinders women's urban experiences. The author skillfully addresses the tension between the city as a space of liberation and the city as a space of danger, writing with an anger caused by the city's streets being closed off to women: To hell with the dangers...
From the difficulty of moving around the city while pregnant or carrying a baby, to urban areas designed to hinder female companionship, to texting upon arriving home and pretending to talk to someone in a taxi, to the invisibilization of queer, lesbian, and disabled women, to the violation of the right to be alone, to the lighting of sidewalks—she presents with incredible clarity the difficulties women face in urban spaces and their ways of resisting them.
Kern points out that the city is constantly structured as a geography of danger for women, arguing that in addition to real threats, myths of danger also shape women's mental geographies, and that the fear created hinders women's urban experiences. The author skillfully addresses the tension between the city as a space of liberation and the city as a space of danger, writing with an anger caused by the city's streets being closed off to women: To hell with the dangers...