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Book SynopsisMen and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue.
Cities and Gender is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, regeneration and social exclusion, for instance, to account for the hidden' infrastructure of everyday life. The three main sections on ''Approaching the City'', ''Gender and Built Environment'' and, finally, ''Representation and Regulation'' explore not only the changing environments, working practices and household structures evident in European and North American cit
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"This book makes an important contribution to urban studies and gender studies by combining a discussion of the Global South with urban scholarship that has focused on Europe and the US, bridging the gaps that keep us from seeing important worldwide continuities and connections."
Professor Jessica Sewell, Boston University, USA
"Cities and Gender provides a detailed ethnographic analysis demonstrating how gendered power relations are manifest in the structure of cities and everyday life within. At last, an accessible and incisive text that succeeds in intertwining urban and gender analysis." Diane Perrons, London School of Economics, UK
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Approaching the City 1. From Binaries to Intersections 2. Historical Trends in Cities and Urban Studies 3. Trends in Urban Restructuring, Gender and Feminist Theory 4. Scale, Power and Interdependence Part 2: Gender and the Built Environment 5. Infrastructures of Daily Life 6. Migration, Movement and Mobility 7. Homes, Jobs, Communities and Networks Part 3: Representation and Regulation 8. Planning and Social Welfare 9. Urban Poverty, Livelihood and Vulnerability 10. Cities and Gender – Politics in Practice
