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Feminist City

A Field Guide

Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think differently about city spaces and city life.

From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations based around care and justice.

Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and pathways towards different urban futures.

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Leslie Kern

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship.

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Kern’s acknowledgements 2 $0.20

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Kern argues that women have always been viewed as a problem for the modern city: but there are alternatives grounded in ideas and notions of urban feminism. 23 $2.30

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Kern examines how the bodies of pregnant women change the way they are perceived in public. 37 $3.70

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Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. 35 $3.50

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Kern explores how mobile digital technologies are essential feminist tools to urban survival. 31 $3.10

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Kern examines how activism and public protest can connect women to cities and feminist politics. 30 $3.00

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Kern highlights the gendered danger women are exposed to in cities and everyday life, and the costs of these threats. 27 $2.70

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Kern briefly discusses the many projects and movements in an effort to create a feminist city. 13 $1.30

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Author’s notes. 15 $1.50

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Index 14 $1.40

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Short author biography with photo. 1 $0.10