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- Feminist Urban Studies: An Introduction
- 1. What is feminism?
- 2. What is feminist urban studies?
- 3. What are feminist philosophies of knowledge?
- 4. Feminist urban studies: early works
- 5. Feminist urban studies from the 1970s: research agendas in the global north and the global south
- 6. What are some key issues in feminist urban research?
- 7. Critiques of masculinist urban spatial epistemologies
- 8. Engagement with ideological constructs of urban space, notably the public / private divide.
- 9. Analyses of urban form and women’s lives in cities
- 10. Summary
- 11. Feedback Survey
2. What is feminist urban studies?
Feminist urban studies can simply be described as a feminist approach to conducting urban research.
But what makes urban studies ‘feminist’?
Urban research is feminist when it is informed by a feminist philosophy of knowledge. Different philosophies of knowledge have different views on social reality.