Rethinking feminist intervenations into the urban / edited by Linda Peake, Martina Rieker

Formerly CIP.
Collection subset: Social Welfare
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban / Martina Rieker --
2. Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: exploring the gender dimensions / Beverley Mullings --
3. Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics / Melissa W. Wright --
4. Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and neighbouring / Dina Vaiou --
5. New mobile women in South China: narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta / Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang --
6. Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur / Richa Nagar --
7. Unsettling narratives: global households, urban life and a politics of possibility / Geraldine Pratt --
8. Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: de-essentialising difference / Ann Varley --
9. Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy: regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region / Gerda R. Wekerle --
10. Gender and violence in Mare, Rio de Janeiro: a tale of two cities? / Ruth Pearson.

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in which the majority of the population now live in urban centres, they take as their starting point the need to examine the production of knowledge about the city through the problematic divide of the global north and south, asking what might a feminist intervention, a position itself fraught with possibilities and problems, into this dominant geographical imaginary look like. Providing a meaningful discussion of the ways in which feminism, gender and women have been understood in relation to the city and urban studies, they ask probing and insightful questions that indicate new directions for theory and research, illustrating the necessity of a re-formulation of the north-south divide as a critical and urgent project for feminist urban studies. Working through platforms as diverse as policy formulations and telling stories, the contributors to the book come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographic locations ranging through the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe, South, East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. They identify a range of issues (such as care, work, violence, the household, mobility, intimacy and poverty) that they analytically address to make sense of and reanimate resistance to the contemporary urban through articulations of new grammars of gendered geographies of justice. Linda Peake is Professor of Urban Studies at York University, Toronto. Martina Rieker is the Director of the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University in Cairo. Publisher's note