Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban : The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author van den Berg, Marguerite (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Urban geography.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319525334
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-52533-4
Physical DescriptionIX, 128 p. 2 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Gender in the post-Fordist Urban
  • 1. Urban theory: Feminist Urban Studies and the Urban Gender Revolution
  • 2. Imagineering: Social Engineering through Gendered Mythmaking
  • 3. Planning: Attracting Women and Children as New Urbanites
  • 4. Social Policy: Targeting Women in Urban Policies - Producing Subject-Positions
  • Conclusions: the City as a Potent Muscleman in Pink Stilettos.

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