Title: Women and the City: For a Social Geography of Gender
Abstract: How do women experience the city they live in (Bordeaux in this case)? In this paper the author explains why studying the perceptions and practices of a sample of urban women is interesting from a scientific point of view. Then he describes the actual forms their spatial relations take, focusing especially on the relations between inside and outside, and private and public spaces. Women’s discourses reveal an urban ideology that favors the beautiful, the clean, and the light, while discrediting the ugly, the dirty, and the dark. This axiology can be observed in the way women characterize the places they like and frequent as well as those they avoid. Between these different types of spaces stand invisible walls.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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