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The Twenty‐First‐Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban
Author(s) -
Peake Linda
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2427.12276
Subject(s) - dismissal , feminism , sociology , gender studies , conversation , subject (documents) , intervention (counseling) , promotion (chess) , urban theory , field (mathematics) , political science , psychology , law , politics , engineering , civil engineering , mathematics , communication , psychiatry , library science , computer science , pure mathematics
The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dismissal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbrication of the gendered subject into neoliberal discourses about the city adds urgency to a feminist intervention. A feminist analytic requires the promotion of a new kind of global urban studies that takes seriously women's struggles, strategies and everyday desires.