| Description |
1 online resource (122 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Housing; Housing type and tenure: or, condo boom (and bust); Privatizing social housing; The aging city; Conclusion; 3. Labor; The work of gender in the gentrified city; Commodifying care; Conclusion; 4. Social reproduction; Gentrification of parenting and childhood; Gentrification and schools; Public housekeeping; Conclusion; Note; 5. Safety; Selling safety; Sacrificing women's bodies to sell the "safe city"; Spectacle policing; In danger at home |
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The end of neighborhood as refugeConclusion; 6. Queer spaces; Queer patriarchy/ queer absences; The decline of the gayborhood; Queer futurity; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion; Other ways of knowing our place; Becoming mothers; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Summary |
"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 the 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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Gentrification -- Social aspects
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Urbanization -- Social aspects
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Sociology, Urban.
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urban sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Sociology, Urban
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Urbanization -- Social aspects
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Women -- Social conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315638157 |
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1315638150 |
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