Gendering the City provides a significant contribution to urban studies, balancing critiques of domination with analyses of how groups and individuals have actively carved out spaces that resist and reconfigure dominant gender regimes. The collection draws on a wide range of empirical work, conducted in both Canada and the United States, to explore the diversity of women's experiences. It is both grounded and provocative.

Ann Forsyth, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Gendering the City represents a contemporary collection of essays that examine a diversity of women's experiences while successfully adhering to the main theme of visible and invisible boundaries. The political positioning of the book both deconstructs the silencing of women and provides refreshingly innovative ways of rethinking spatial knowledges of the urban environment.

American Journal of Sociology

In Gendering the City, Kristine Miranne and Alma Young have brought together an interesting collection of essays about Canadian and U.S. cities. Although the topic, approach, and tone of the chapters of this volume are predictably varied, the editors have done an admirable job in focusing the material on the broad issue of boundaries. The book itself is a slim, attractive volume. The bibliographies and notes are at the end of each chapter and there is a thorough index to the entire volume. The editors have done their job well. The book is valuable, particularly in its attention to race, ethnicity and class in women's lives.

Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

This volume would make an excellent resource for readings in urban studies courses. The wide range of topics covered makes the work useful in a range of courses, or for a variety of topics within a survey course. Gendering the City makes a strong contribution in this area.

Urban Studies

An important and useful collection with an impressive mix of senior and junior scholars. The gendered-boundaries concept puts the arguments in fresh perspective, and the material on African-American women and indigenous women is a welcome addition.

Susan E. Clarke, University of Colorado