What Right to the City?

Feminist Reading of the Failed Tools and Instruments for "Women's Equality" in Urban Planning in Mexico

Abstract

Feminist theory analyzes how the gender perspective has been incorporated, institutionalized and instrumentalized in urban politics and planning in Mexico, placing special emphasis on how women are considered in the field of access to housing, the problem of displacement and public transport, the use of public space, etc.  and the implications that this has on their daily practices, based on the assumption that we are still far from integrating the gender perspective as a transformative principle of urban planning and design within the "right to the city", since at the level of political reforms that are linked to the urban and the territorial,  Gender has been used more as a descriptive or analytical category than as a political category, continuing to make women invisible as political subjects of knowledge, by not considering their experiences of life in the city.