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[woolen2010]

『フェミニスト・シティ』"Feminist City" 装丁 book design 著者 author:レスリー・カーン　Leslie Kern AD&D:Naoko Fukuoka 福岡南央子_woolen CL: 晶文社 Shobunsha　 2022

[sapphireshorelines]

As a woman, my everyday urban experiences are deeply gendered. My gender identity shapes how I move through the city, how I live my life day-to-day, and the choices available to me. My gender is more than my body, but my body is the site of my lived experience, where my identity, history, and the spaces I’ve lived in meet and interact and write themselves on my flesh. This is the space that I write from. It’s the space where my experiences lead me to ask, “Why doesn’t my stroller fit on the streetcar?” “Why do I have to walk an extra half mile home because the shortcut is too dangerous?” “Who will pick up my kid from camp if I get arrested at a G20 protest?” These aren’t just personal questions. They start to get to the heart of why and how cities keep women “in their place.”

Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

[artemisbarnowl]

I'm only a 3rd of the way through feminist city and I sort of want to give up. It's not compelling, I'm not ruminating or reflecting and it's sorta just boring. It's a bit the writing style but also the author just doesn't seem to be hitting at the crux of any issue she raises. She certainly doesn't entertain how things could be different (beyond comparing extant city traits to extant suburb ones). Does it get better? Or do I just stop and find a better book to read?

[rezubureipu]

Furthermore, asking women to “buy” their safety through condo ownership contributes to the trend of privatization, where people are held responsible for their own well-being, even their safety from crime. Making safety a private commodity in the city means that it becomes less and less available to those who lack the economic means to secure themselves. This is certainly a long way from an intersectional feminist vision of a safer city for women.

Leslie Kern, Feminist City

[rezubureipu]

Again, it’s not that women are irrational or making bad choices. We’re accurately reflecting the messages society has drilled into us. The long term and everyday effects, though, are substantial.

Leslie Kern, Feminist City

[rezubureipu]

It’s very Women’s Studies 101, but it bears repeating: the social function of women’s fear is the control of women. Fear restricts women’s lives. It limits our use of public spaces, shapes our choices about work and other economic opportunities, and keeps us, in what is perhaps an actual paradox, dependent on men as protectors. This all works to prop up a heteropatriarchal capitalist system in which women are tied to the private space of the home and responsible for domestic labour within the institution of the nuclear family. It’s a system that benefits men as a group and upholds the status quo very effectively.

Leslie Kern, Feminist City

[ochodamas]

(In)Seguridad

Hace unos días terminé de leer Ciudad feminista de Leslie Kern (Bellaterra). Según iba avanzando por sus páginas iba encontrándome con situaciones que se me hacían familiares. Situaciones y hábitos que yo había vivido o vivía actualmente estaban ahí escritos, pero hasta que los leí no fui consciente de ellos, de su existencia en mi vida.  Todas somos conscientes de la inseguridad que sentimos al…

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[diabeticlesbian]

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