The city is the space where the intricate landscape of inequalities and varied forms of oppression experienced by its inhabitants is vividly displayed, revealing a complex web of contradictions. It is a stage where social, economic, and political differences among individuals are starkly evident both in the public domain and within the private sphere. In her book Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World (2020), Leslie Kern sheds light on these disparities through a gender-focused lens. In her research, she elucidates how the multifaceted layers of oppression experienced by women find expression within urban environments, often making women and their specific urban needs and challenges invisible. Especially for migrant, Black, Indigenous, and low-income women, cities tend to perpetuate this invisibility, underscoring the historical reality that urban spaces have been predominantly designed and managed by men, often to the exclusion or neglect of the needs of women. Across five distinct...

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