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Mount Allison University
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email lkern@mta.ca

• Background
• Research Interests
• Courses Taught at Mount Allison
• Publications

Background

PhD                 York University                                                                                 
2008               Women’s Studies

MA                   University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education   
2002               Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

Hons. BSc        University of Toronto                                                            

1998               Human Biology and Women’s Studies, Double Major

Research Interests

Gender and cities; gentrification and urban revitalization; urban neoliberalism; urban citizenship; discourse analysis in geography; qualitative research methods; emotional and embodied geographies; urban political economy; critical social theory; feminist theory

2009-2010  Women’s Studies Program
WOST 2001 Introduction to Women’s Studies
WOST 3001 Feminist Theories
WOST 3021 Feminist Epistemology and Methodology
WOST 3991 Gender and Environment
WOST 4001 Gendering the Global Economy: Transnational Perspectives

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Kern, Leslie (2010). Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Kern, Leslie. (2010). Gendering reurbanisation: Women and new-build gentrification in Toronto. Population, Space and Place, 16(5), pp. 363-379.

Kern, Leslie. (2010). Selling the ‘scary city’: Gendering freedom, fear and condominium development in the neoliberal city. Social and Cultural Geography, 11(3), pp. 209-230.

Kern, Leslie and Wekerle, Gerda R. (2008). Gendered spaces of redevelopment, gendered politics of city building. In J. DeSena (Ed.) Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 9, Gender in an Urban World, pp. 233-262. Bingley, UK: Jai Press/Emerald.

Kern, Leslie. (2007). Reshaping the boundaries of public and private life: Gender, condominium development and the neoliberalization of urban living. Urban Geography, 28 (7), pp. 657-681.

Kern, Leslie. (2005). In place and at home in the city: Connecting privilege, safety, and belonging for women in Toronto. Gender, Place and Culture, 12 (3), pp. 357-377.

Dissertation and thesis:
Kern, Leslie. (2008). Gendering Urban Revitalization: Women, Condominium Development and the Neoliberalization of Urban Citizenship. PhD Dissertation, York University, Toronto.
Awarded a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, 2009. Nominated for the York University Dissertation Award, 2008. 

Kern, Leslie. (2002). Gendered Fears and Racialized Spaces: Social Exclusions and Women’s Fear of Violence in Urban and Suburban Spaces. Master’s Thesis, OISE/UT, Toronto.
           
Book reviews:
Kern, Leslie. (2007). Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto, by Sylvia Bashevkin. Gender, Place and Culture, 14, (2), pp. 246-248.

Kern, Leslie. (2005). Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture, by Sarah Projansky. Resources for Feminist Research, 31, (1/2), pp. 54-56.

Work submitted:
Kern, Leslie. (2010). Strike a neoliberal pose? Yoga and the embodied geographies of gentrification. Submitted to Emotion, Space and Society, March 29. Revising and resubmitting, September 30.

Kern, Leslie. (2010). All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto’s Junction. Submitted to Environment and Planning A, June 29. Revising and resubmitting, December 1.

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