Danna’s Reviews > Feminist City: A Field Guide > Status Update

It is fulfilling only in one aspect - I, a woman who grew up in the middle east, got a glimpse to the life of a woman who grew up in a country far away and found it very similar. That's validation and that's all I'd gained so far from reading this. I enjoy it for the quality glimpse into another young woman's life, from an anthropological perspective.

So far it's just the author talking about her life while repeating that she's a woman and seasoning the narrative with terms from gender, media and urban studies, but absolutely not deep, not analytical and is just a book of essays, the marketing as urban or academic is completely misleading.

Mostly anecdotal, validating our experience as women. But so far it still feels like the City could be Anywhere...

Disguised as urban parenting, urban motherhood, this chapter doesn't elaborate on how the city itself is beneficial or restrictive to parents. She remains purely on the rant side, no analysis, no solutions, and that's why I'm DNFinf - this is not the in depth diagnosis of a city's role in a woman's life I was looking to. It's pure rant, stating the obvious.

This isn't really an urban book so far, but social history about mainly race and not gender.