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This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a
gendered lens at how women utilize urban space. Focusing on the
conceptual and methodological manner of boundaries, the book
reminds us that women are members of multiple and diverse groups
and as such, they can be active, creative, and powerful agents.
Multidisciplinary essays, contributed by urbanists, geographers,
political scientists, and historians, explore the ways in which
women confront, break down, resist, and form new boundaries and
interconnections, both visible and invisible. Arguing for a change
in the traditional agenda of cities, the authors investigate how
aspects of urban life and space would look considerably different
if the alternatives and options presented by women and other
marginalized groups were taken into account. They urge us toward a
better understanding of how diverse social groups interact, how
urban space can enhance such interaction, and what role formal and
informal laws, by-laws, policies, and other planning measures
should play.
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