Beebeejaun, Y;
(2017)
Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life.
Journal of Urban Affairs
, 39
(3)
pp. 323-334.
10.1080/07352166.2016.1255526.
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Abstract
Gender remains a neglected focus for theory and practice in shaping cities. Given women’s continuing economic and social marginalisation, and the prevalence of violence against women, how can this be the case? Despite several decades of feminist scholarship, dominant perspectives within the “the right to the city” literature pay little attention to how “rights” are gendered. In contrast, feminist and queer scholarship concerned with everyday life, and the multiple spatial tactics of marginalized city dwellers, reveals a more complex urban arena in which rights are negotiated or practiced. This paper suggests that a fuller recognition of the contested publics that co-exist within the contemporary city, and the gendered mediation of everyday experiences, could enable planners and policy makers to undertake more inclusive forms of intervention in urban space.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07352166.2016.1255526 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2016.1255526 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published with license by Taylor & Francis.© Yasminah Beebeejaun This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Gender; feminist theory; urban planning; the right to the city |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1489781 |
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