Constructive Feminism : Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spain, Daphne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Feminist geography > United States.
Feminism and architecture > United States.
Women and city planning > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban women > United States > History > 20th century.
Public spaces > United States > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Feminism > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 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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