Constructive feminism : women's spaces and women's rights in the American city /
In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movemen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space, Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to end the mandatory segregation of women and men in public institutions, while radical activists created small-scale places that gave women the confidence to claim their rights to the public sphere. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780801453199 0801453194 9781501703201 150170320X |