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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations based around care and justice.
Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and pathways towards different urban futures. Feminist questions about safety and fear, paid and unpaid work, and rights and representation prompt us to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and open space to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.
Critic Reviews
“The magic of the city works on many different levels. Kern’s book helps reveal them. She rightly proposes that to move beyond the oppressions structured into cities, we need utopian visions.” (Susan Ferguson, Hamilton Review of Books)
“Feminist City exposes the oppressive, heteronormative and colonialist structures which form the layered foundations of most cities. Although Kern writes that there is no blueprint for a feminist city, she has provided us with a field guide to be critical of and protest our cities, which, as put by Jane Darke, are ‘patriarchy written in stone, brick, glass and concrete.’” (Allison Smith, rabble.ca)
“Kern’s book and ideas deserve to be read and discussed on the Left. I hope that we can build on Kern’s research and analysis to generate a collective, intersectional approach to urban organizing that is clear-eyed about the system within which we labour and is motivated by the wildest imagining of a decolonial, anticapitalist, feminist future.” (Kate Atkinsoh, spring magazine)
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-23
Very well covered
I feel that this book covered all communities, racial, gendered, sexual orientation, etc.
I felt as though I could connect with this book and the statements being made.
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- Miriam
- 04-02-21
Ruined by 'notes'
I found this impossible to listen to. The flow of the text is interrupted by notes. I'm not sure at this point, but I think that the notes are at the end of the chapter. There was no explanation at the beginning to orient me, there is nothing to tell me we've finished the notes.
What it made me realise above all else is that using lots of notes is a really unsatisfactory way to write (for the reader). his book is not written, in the chapters I have listened to so far, in a particularly academic style, but rather a more first person, persuasive style. When there is information she feels that she must add but that doesn't belong in the core argument it is added as a note. it would be better to integrate the information or consider whether it is really relevant or interesting.
A reader can ignore the notes . Unfortunately, a listener can not.
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- From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity
- By: Liz Plank
- Narrated by: Liz Plank
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For the Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.
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Important and thought provoking
- By David Tanner on 09-28-19
By: Liz Plank
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Democrat to Deplorable
- Why Nine Million Obama Voters Ditched the Democrats and Embraced Donald Trump
- By: Jack Murphy
- Narrated by: Jack Heald
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Democrat to Deplorable takes a deep look at the nine million Democrats who proudly switched parties to vote for President Donald Trump. These voters feel the cold edge of the culture war more than any other group, and this book captures their experiences and the current zeitgeist. Based on a national survey, in-depth interviews, and a personal narrative, Democrat to Deplorable is the definitive book which explores and explains the current cultural climate leading to President Donald Trump, Trumpism, and the New Right.
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informative perspective
- By big kev on 08-26-21
By: Jack Murphy
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The Macho Paradox
- Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
- By: Jackson Katz
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one - and how we can come together to stop it. Written by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox incorporates the voices and experiences of women and men who have confronted the problem from all angles, the discussions surrounding currents events in politics and pop culture, and where the violence is ignored or encouraged in our upbringing.
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A must read
- By Mark on 09-17-20
By: Jackson Katz
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Transgender History, Second Edition
- The Roots of Today's Revolution
- By: Susan Stryker
- Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Covering American transgender history from the mid-20th century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.
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something for everyone to learn
- By Nick G on 03-12-19
By: Susan Stryker
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
- By: Michele Gelfand
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers celebrated cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that much of the diversity in the way we think and act derives from a key difference - how tightly or loosely we adhere to social norms.
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A Must Read
- By Dave S. on 10-23-18
By: Michele Gelfand
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From What Is to What If
- Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- By: Rob Hopkins
- Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.
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Best book ive read! (Heard)
- By Skyleigh on 12-15-22
By: Rob Hopkins
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Prey
- Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. This violence isn’t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It’s a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world.
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Feminist Must-Read
- By Annie Raks on 02-26-21
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We Live for the We
- The Political Power of Black Motherhood
- By: Dani McClain
- Narrated by: Dani McClain
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics.
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An Overdue Book!
- By Chrise.ed92 on 04-25-19
By: Dani McClain
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Disintegration
- The Splintering of Black America
- By: Eugene Robinson
- Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
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Written for Popular Consumption
- By Catherine S. Read on 06-03-11
By: Eugene Robinson
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Palaces for the People
- How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
- By: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure”: When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
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Okayyy
- By K on 04-11-19
By: Eric Klinenberg
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Against White Feminism
- Notes on Disruption
- By: Rafia Zakaria
- Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Upper-middle-class White women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority.
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Important that deals, thoughts, and challenges
- By LTRomanceReader on 02-23-23
By: Rafia Zakaria
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Unladylike
- A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space
- By: Cristen Conger, Caroline Ervin
- Narrated by: Cristen Conger, Caroline Ervin
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Get ready to get unladylike with this field guide to the whats, whys, and hows of intersectional feminism and practical hell-raising. Through essential, inclusive, and illustrated explorations of what patriarchy looks like in the real world, authors and podcast hosts Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin blend wild histories, astounding stats, social justice principles, and self-help advice to connect where the personal meets political in our bodies, brains, booty calls, bank accounts, and other confounding facets of modern woman-ing and nonbinary-ing.
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Well written, interesting, funny, informative and inspirational.
- By Ma on 05-06-19
By: Cristen Conger, and others