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AbstractThe 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.

1. Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban / Linda Peake and Martina Rieker -- 2. Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence : exploring the gender dimensions / Leslie Kern and Beverley Mullings -- 3. Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics / Melissa W. Wright -- 4. Transnational city lives : changing patterns of care and neighbouring / Dina Vaiou -- 5. New mobile women in South China : narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta / Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang -- 6. Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies : staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur / Sofia Shank and Richa Nagar -- 7. Unsettling narratives : global households, urban life and a politics of possibility / Geraldine Pratt -- 8. Feminist perspectives on urban poverty : de-essentialising difference / Ann Varley -- 9. Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy : regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region / Gerda R. Wekerle -- 10. Gender and violence in Mare, Rio de Janeiro : a tale of two cities? / Polly Wilding and Ruth Pearson.