Suchergebnisse

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.

Papers presented at the Workshop: Comparing Urban Landscapes, held at Lahore in April 2004

The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.