Gender and Gentrification

Gender and Gentrification
Author: Winifred Curran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317270177

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.

Cities and Gender

Cities and Gender
Author: Helen Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134119259

Men and women experience the city differently in a myriad of ways. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. This book is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning, plus a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates.

Gender in an Urban World

Gender in an Urban World
Author: Judith N. DeSena
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 076231477X

Brings the analysis of gender from the margin to the center of urban theory. This volume examines the influence of gender in shaping relations in urban spaces and places. It represents a "crack" in the landscape of urban sociology, and engages in the discourse of the field from a gendered perspective.

Handbook of Gentrification Studies

Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Author: Loretta Lees
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1785361740

It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.

Women, Work, and Place

Women, Work, and Place
Author: Audrey Kobayashi
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1994-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0773564942

Topics include the transformation of the work force in nineteenth-century Montreal (Bettina Bradbury), feminization of skill in the British garment industry (Allison Kaye), the relationship between work and family for Japanese immigrant women in Canada (Audrey Kobayashi), experiences of women during a labour dispute in Ontario (Joy Parr), contemporary restructuring of the labour force in the United States (Susan Christopherson) and in an urban context in Montreal (Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve), the effect of gentrification on women's work roles (Liz Bondi), inequality in the work force (Sylvia Gold), and theoretical issues involved in understanding women in the contemporary city (Linda Peake). An introductory essay provides a review of current issues. Feminists and women's studies specialists and activists as well as geographers, historians, sociologists, and policy planners will find this book of great interest.

Gender Divisions and Social Change

Gender Divisions and Social Change
Author: Nickie Charles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This book asks whether gender divisions of labour which subordinate women need be either universal or inevitable, and whether explanations for these divisions are the product of ethnocentric and male-dominated research and methodology.

Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective
Author: Dr Kirsteen Paton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1472418506

This book reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the ‘hidden rewards’ as well as the ‘hidden injuries’ of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods.