She graduated in Architecture at the University of Cagliari in 2011 and obtained a Master of Science in Human Settlements at the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2014.

With Feminist City Kern suggests a two-word manifesto: looking at cities from a feminist perspective helps to recognize who is being marginalized and to understand how space structures systems of oppression due to gender but also ethnicity, class, ability, and sexuality. She doesn't offer many solutions, but she does point out changes and, perhaps, how some of the changes can make further changes. As an alternative vision, I suggest that ‘gender mainstreaming’ strategies that have emerged in the European context might be more promising.Another detail that caught my eye was Kern misspelling Hindi, the language, as "Hindu," the religious identity; the instances referring to non-western countries generally seemed somewhat poorly contextualised. An intersectional analysis of our urban environments through a combination of personal narrative, theory, and pop culture analysis. She deploys an intersectional lens to explore such themes as mobility, protest, adolescence, and friendship, weaving together an impressive array of sources from academic writings and popular culture (Doreen Massey appears alongside Two Dope Queens).

In providing such self-reflection, she acknowledges her position as a white, middle-class, cisgender woman, although this acknowledgement is not always apparent throughout the chapters, leading to an intermittent positionality problem in which the author becomes both an insider and outsider to certain inequalities that concern, for instance, particular racial and sexual minorities. The author also points out that many current solutions are lacking in this aspect and perhaps there isn’t any way to help all types of women equally. Geography here means our relationships with the environment and how we interact with it and how it interacts with us in a way. 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. Leslie Kern has a very critical and astute set of observations throughout this book as it's broken down into various chapters that focus on motherhood, female friendship, safety, and more.In this regard, gentrification and attempts at constructing a non-sexist city, such as through gender-mainstreaming strategies, will be conceptually analysed in this review. Aku juga sempat bertanya, bagaimana definisi "layak huni" yang seringkali dijadikan embel-embel supaya sebuah kota terlihat wah? This original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender.

In addition to this methodological strength, the theoretical framework paves the way for a broader understanding of uneven power relations and interlocking systems of oppression. My very first realisation about how gendered inequities are built into urban landscapes came with a strong urge to pee–and no public restrooms for women in sight.

Concise, scholarly, and personal survey of feminist geography of the city, looking at how cities are designed to perpetuate comfort and power for certain members of society (mass transit systems more often than not are set up for funneling white collar workers to and from urban cores and not for making it easy to do inter- or inner-city trips to school, errands, work, and back again) and how cities can be used as hotbeds of activism and social change. Much of the information was not necessarily new to me when taken separatedly, but it was very enlightening to see all issues linked and brought together under one single mode of looking at urban spaces, when inhabited by women. The home was strangely more like a public space, since girls didn’t feel a sense of privacy or control over their bedrooms and possessions here. Kern maintains that cities are generally designed with white able-bodied men in mind and points out the deficiencies in cities that make it harder for women to live there. I want us all to live in an environment more full of care, protection, and solidarity than the one we live in now.