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

by Daphne Spain

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150170320X
• ISBN13: 9781501703201
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher