Bibliograph

Constructive feminism, women's spaces and women's rights in the American city, Daphne Spain

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Constructive feminism, women's spaces and women's rights in the American city, Daphne Spain

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-249) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Constructive feminism

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

923017612

Responsibility statement

Daphne Spain

Sub title

women's spaces and women's rights in the American city

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction : spatial implications of the second wave -- Feminist practice : social movements and urban space -- Women's centers : nurturing autonomy -- Feminist bookstores : building identity -- Feminist health clinics : promoting reproductive rights -- Domestic violence shelters : protecting bodily integrity -- After the second wave : necessary spaces

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