Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
We live in the City of men.
It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and women-friendly cities together..
Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the City from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional Feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the City is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future.
Kern offers an alternative vision of the Feminist city.
A place where women can walk without harassment.
In Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods.
A public space with enough toilets.
A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run.
What would a metropolis for working women look like? A City of friendships beyond Sex and the City.
Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult.
The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community.
There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers.
Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies.
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
We live in the City of men
