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  • Feminist City

    Claiming Space in a Man-Made World 

    by Leslie Kern ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

    by Leslie Kern ...
    From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sex and the Revitalized City

    Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly empowered women, or were the reports merely celebratory rhetoric that disguised more disquieting ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Higher Expectations

    How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University

    by Roberta Hawkins, Leslie Kern ...
    Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they’re built on systems that are discriminatory, hierarchical, and individualistic. This hurts the people that work and learn in them and limits the potential for universities to contribute to a better ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

    by Leslie Kern ...
    **Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the YearHow gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it**What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author of the best selling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Feminist City

    A Field Guide

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place.” From the geography of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Narrated by Parmida Vand ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks