RETHINKING FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS INTO THE URBAN Edited by Linda Peake and Martina Rieker O Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK CONTENTS Notes contributors on ix xii Acknowledgements 1 Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban 1 LINDA PEAKE AND MARTINA R1EKER 2 Urban neoliberalism, the exploring urban insecurity and urban violence: 23 gender dimensions LESLIE KERN AND BEVERLEY MULL1NGS 3 4 urban Feminism, MELISSA W. knowledge and the killing of 41 politics WRIGHT Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and 52 neighbouring DINA VAIOU 5 New mobile and the women in South China: narratives of female imagination of development success in the Pearl River Delta 68 TSUNG-YI MICHELLE HUANG 6 Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur 90 SOFIA SHANK AND RICHA NAGAR 7 Unsettling politics of narratives: global households, urban life and a possibility 108 GERALDINE PRATT 8 Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: ANN VARLEY Vll de-essentialising difference 125 CONTENTS 9 silences in urban Interrogating gendered alternative visions of a policy: regionalism and caring region GERDA R. WEKERLE 10 Gender and violence in POLLY WILDING AND RUTH Mare, Rio de PEARSON Bibliography Index vm Janeiro: a tale of two cities?