2024 Reading List
In October 2023, Glasgow City Council unanimously voted in favour of a motion to make Glasgow the UK’s first “feminist city”, with the proponents advocating for a new feminist urbanism - a move towards centering inclusive and accessible decision making in placeshaping. Many of these features align well with other strategic goals, introducing more street lights, improving people’s proximity to services, walkability, opening more accessible toilets, making our pavement bigger pavements and increasing the amount of open green space.
Things for everyone to enjoy.
“These factors aren’t only important for women, they are key considerations for creating a healthier, more liveable city for all, with positive impacts in terms of physical and mental wellbeing and air quality”
For 2024, we have put together a reading list which looks towards a feminist future. Some of these are books we’ve read, some we’re reading and some are on our wishlist for the year to come.
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World (in a Big Way), Roma Agrawal
Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
Architecture: The Story of Practice, Dana Cuff
The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the creative Class and The Politics of Design, Peggy Deamer (editor)
A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway
Xenofeminism, Helen Hester
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Feminist City, Leslie Kern
Space Crone, Ursula K Le Guin
Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Audre Lorde
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, Maria Lugones
Penis Envy, Mari Ruti
The Invention of Women, Oyeronke Oyewumi
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, Lola Olufemi
And… if you want to find good places to buy books, we can recommend a few independent bookshops and lending libraries in both Glasgow and London. They might not have everything on the reading list, but we think they’re worth a visit anyway:
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