Toward a Feminist Philosophy of the City: Occupying the City, Reimagining Democracy

This paper attempts to articulate a feminist philosophy of the city that highlights questions and intersections of subjectivity, corporeality, and spatiality in order to unpack the political and philosophical significance of a feminist city. In doing so, this paper develops feminist philosophical thinking on spatiality which considers the philosophical and political significance of the sexed and gendered dimensions of how we inhabit, or are excluded from, place and space, and makes connections with feminist social reproduction theory and a feminist politics of the commons. Unpacking these connections gestures toward a feminist philosophy of the city that pays attention to the ways in which we can reoccupy public space and public institutions and begin reimagining democracy framed by the question of sexuate difference.