Gender inclusion in urban consumption spaces
urban space, and the right to everyday life explores urban planning through a practical approach, it explores gendered mediation of space in everyday life.
A Gender Agenda gives an introduction to the key concepts of feminist
methodology of research, planning theory, feminist theory, and the application of feminist theory on planning theory in arenas of (i)spatial, economic, social relationships, (ii)language and communication, (iii)epistemology and methodology, (iv)ethics, (v)nature of public domain, and gender sensitive theory on urban planning research (Sandercock and Forsyth, 1992). Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life
focuses on everyday life to understand the gendered mediation of space. In order to explain the gendered mediation of space, gender, urban space and the right to normal life are based on daily life. The study suggests that a broader variety of urban environments are deserving of consideration, and daily spaces are often ignored when debating gender inclusion (Beebeejaun, 2017). The above studies give theory and praxis of gender in urban spaces with its roots in feminist theory. Both the studies narrow down the feminist political struggles associated with urban planning into three components. According to Gender, urban
space, and the right to everyday life, the reasons for women’s unequal position in society are rooted in:
Firstly, there is women’s economic inequality in the labor market, along with the continuing burden of unpaid labor disproportionately falling on women; secondly there is women’s underrepresentation across a range of political and leadership roles; and thirdly, there is the persistence of widespread violence against women. (Beebeejaun, 2017, p. 323)
The solutions for the same points are discussed by Sandercock and Forsyth (1992), (i)women’s participation in public domain and spaces, (ii)create and protect public space for women, (iii)redefining nature and extent of public domain. However, both the studies reinforced cisnormativity by failing to mention other non-binary groups oppressed by gender. The tyranny of gendered spaces – reflections Page | 27
