ABSTRACT

Spatial inequities around the gendering of bodies are particularly acute in respect of transgender, queer and non-binary subjects whose access to everyday spaces, public anonymity and urban amenity is compromised or proscribed in numerous ways. In contemporary US cities the gendering of urban protest serves to underline the differentiated citizenships of women or minority men in a broader setting of legal and political equality. Acts of protest are among the most immediate ways in which spaces of urban politics are made manifest. Gendering spatial politics raises certain issues which are especially acute in relation to women's protests and might also help us to think more generally about manifestations in urban space. The relationship between the urban as the object of politics and the city as a site of political mobilization is paralleled by the interactions between gender as a matter of politics and gender as a mode of political expression.