Curran Gender and Gentrification

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-27018-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 130 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

The current debate around gentrification demonstrates little consideration of the gendered effects of gentrification. Taking an intersectional approach, Gender and Gentrification argues that gentrification has often reinforced traditional gender roles and spatial constructions in the process of reshaping the labor, housing, commercial, and policy landscapes of the city. Gentrification increases the cost of living in cities, thereby serving to narrow choices, not expand them, doing so in a way that traps many women and racialized men at the low end of the wage ladder, limits housing choices, makes social reproduction more expensive and limits the scope of the democratic process.

By engaging the gentrification literature and the literature on the gendered effects of urban policy, this volume accounts for the role of gentrification in the larger social processes through which gender is continually reconstituted. In so doing, it makes clear that the negative effects of gentrification are far more wide-ranging than popularly understood, and make recommendations for renewed activism and policy that places gender at its core.

This is valuable reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in social and economic geography, city planning, gender studies, and wider urban studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curran, Winifred

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Housing

3. Labor

4. Social Reproduction

5. Safety

6. Queer Spaces

7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Winifred Curran is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.