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Helen Jarvis - Cities and Gender - 9780415415705 - V9780415415705
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Cities and Gender

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Description for Cities and Gender Paperback. Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book 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, and regeneration. Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 29 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.

Men 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’ ... Read more

This book introduces the reader to previously neglected dimensions of gendered critical urban analysis. It sheds light, through competing theories and alternative explanations, on recent transformations of gender roles, state and personal politics and power relations; across intersecting spheres: of home, work, the family, urban settlements and civil society. It takes a household perspective alongside close scrutiny of social networks, gender contracts, welfare regimes and local cultural milieu. In addition to providing the student with a solid conceptual grounding across broad structures of production, consumption and social reproduction, the argument cultivates an interdisciplinary awareness of, and dialogue between, the everyday issues of urban dwellers in affluent and developing world cities. The format of the book means that included with each chapter are key definitions, ‘boxed’ concepts and case study evidence along with specifically tailored learning activities and further reading. This is both a timely and trenchant discussion that has pertinence for students, scholars and researchers.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415415705
SKU
V9780415415705
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Helen Jarvis
Helen Jarvis is lecturer in human geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Paula Kantor is Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, based in Kabul Jonathan Cloke is Research Associate for the Global and World Cities Group within the Geography Department at Loughborough University, UK

Reviews for Cities and Gender
"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 ... Read more

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