Feminist City with Leslie Kern
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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EPISODE 101: FEMINIST CITY WITH LESLIE KERN
Cities have almost always been designed by men, prioritizing men’s needs as defined by the traditional male-female binary. But as scholar and author Leslie Kern writes in her book, Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, a truly feminist city could be, “an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.” Sarah talks with Dr. Kern about how gender influences the way we move through our streets, and how adopting a feminist perspective could make our cities more humane and livable for everyone, regardless of gender identity.
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This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Goodyear. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, stick with me here, but I've never really understood the expression that March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. |
| 0:09.0 | I mean sure the weather is terrible at the beginning of March and generally gets a little better, |
| 0:15.0 | but March is also followed by April, which is, you know, the month that's said to be nothing but showers that bring May flowers. |
| 0:24.0 | Make up your mind, expression, creators, |
| 0:26.4 | does March end calmly, or does it just |
| 0:28.7 | mark the beginning of a whole lot of rain? |
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| 1:24.7 | Women like anyone else, we hear the messages from politicians about danger, crime, etc. the seemingly logical solutions include |
| 1:27.3 | retreating to the suburbs, finding that gated community, |
| 1:30.4 | buying that bigger and bigger SUV, creating that sort of bubble of protection |
| 1:35.0 | around yourself so that you minimize your time in public space and that's |
| 1:41.9 | detrimental to women and to society in general in the long term in terms of everything from increasing the isolation that women feel in suburban environments to of being bad for the planet and maybe |
| 1:54.8 | ultimately not that safe to always be behind the wheel of a car either. This is the War on Cars. I'm Sarah Goodyear. In this episode, I talk with scholar and author Dr. Leslie Kern about her recent book, |
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