Gender and gentrification
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Gender and gentrification
(Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city)
Routledge, 2019
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [98]-116) and index
"First published 2018 by Routledge, First issued in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso
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Description
This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city. It focuses in particular on the impact of gentrification on women and racialized men, exploring how gentrification increases the cost of living, serves to narrow housing choices, make social reproduction more expensive, and limits the scope of the democratic process. This has resulted in the displacement of many of the phenomena once considered to be the emancipatory hallmarks of gentrification, such as gayborhoods. The book explores 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 makes 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, urban studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Housing 3. Labor 4. Social Reproduction 5. Safety 6. Queer Spaces 7. Conclusion
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