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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
9. Analyses of urban form and women’s lives in cities
This has included an examination of issues, including:
- Women’s engagement in organizing social reproduction collectively at the level of the home, neighbourhood and city; Women’s attempts to shape urban form at home, neighbourhood and city-wide levels (activism, planning, policy).
- A plethora of utopian and practical proposals that aimed to socialise domestic work were to emerge: alternative house and neighbourhood designs, neighbourhood organisations, kitchenless houses, collective day care, housing and housekeeping arrangements, public kitchens, cooked food delivery, community dining clubs and other community facilities, municipal housekeeping, producer and consumer co-operatives and feminist cities. These are alternative arrangements to that of the single family home.
- Women’s lives in the suburbs and in city centres;
- Studies in urban planning and transportation and women’s access to housing from the material feminists of 19th century USA to feminist engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals.
- The gendered dimensions of urban and regional development and planning.
References:
Doan, P. L., 2010. “Gendered Space” In Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, R. Hutchison (ed). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 299-302.
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Katz, C., 2017. Social reproduction. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, and R. Marston eds. The AAG Encyclopaedia of Geography, edited Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Lofland, L., 1975. The ‘thereness’ of women: A Selective Review of Urban Sociology. In Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social Sciences. New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, pp. 106-143.
Moser. C., 2016. Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: challenges for Habitat III and beyond. Environment & Urbanization, pp. 1–16. DOI: 10.1177/0956247816662573
Peake, L and Pratt, G. 2017. Why Women in Cities Matter. In A. Bain, and L. Peake eds. Urbanization In A Global Context, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 276-294.
UN Habitat. 2013. State of Women in Cities 2012-2013 Gender and the Prosperity of Cities. Nairobi: United Nations Human Settlements Programme.