The Twenty‐First‐Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban |
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| Authors: | Linda Peake |
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| Affiliation: | The City Institute, Kaneff Tower 731, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dismissal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbrication of the gendered subject into neoliberal discourses about the city adds urgency to a feminist intervention. A feminist analytic requires the promotion of a new kind of global urban studies that takes seriously women's struggles, strategies and everyday desires. |
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| Keywords: | feminism feminist methodology praxis urban theory women |
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