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Leslie Kern

    Leslie Kern delves into themes of gender, gentrification, and feminism. Her academic writing and teaching focus on urban, social, and feminist geography, exploring how these domains shape society. Her work is characterized by a sharp insight into societal structures and their impact on gender dynamics. Kern brings a unique perspective to the academic sphere, enriching our understanding of urban environments and feminism.

    Gentrifizierung lässt sich nicht aufhalten und andere Lügen
    Sex and the Revitalized City
    Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
    Feminist city
    • Feminist city

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(218)Add rating

      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. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. 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. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. 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. 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.

      Feminist city
    • Sex and the Revitalized City

      Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Focusing on urban revitalization in Toronto, the book highlights women's perspectives to uncover the underlying neoliberal agenda behind condo ownership. It critiques how the narrative of revitalization often masks broader economic and social implications, shedding light on the experiences and challenges faced by women in this context. Through this lens, it challenges conventional views of urban development and ownership, offering a critical analysis of the intersection between gender and urban policy.

      Sex and the Revitalized City
    • Gentrifizierung – was genau ist das eigentlich? Irgendwas mit Verdrängung in der Stadt? Und können wir etwas dagegen tun? Essayistisch und kurzweilig geschrieben vermittelt Leslie Kern einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Debatten über Gentrifizierung seit den 1950er Jahren: was umfasst sie, wer profitiert von ihr und wer wird durch sie verdrängt? Wir begleiten die Autorin auf ihren Reisen nach Toronto, New York, London und Paris, wo sie den Mythen und Lügen der neuen Krise der Städte auf den Grund geht und dabei deutlich macht, dass die gewaltvolle Verdrängung eng mit Klassismus, Rassismus und Sexismus verbunden und eine Fortsetzung des kolonialen Projekts ist. Doch: Steigende Mieten, Zwangsräumungen, zunehmende Polizeipräsenz und zerfallende Communitys sind nicht unumgänglich und Widerstand lohnt sich. Kern tritt für eine dekoloniale, feministische und queere Praxis der Anti-Gentrifizierung ein, die neben dem Recht auf Stadt für alle auch die Rückgabe von Land und Entschädigungen für Vertriebene fordert.

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