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9780847694518

Gendering the City Women, Boundaries, and Visions of Urban Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847694518

  • ISBN10:

    0847694518

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-19
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This volume challenges the imagery of cities by looking through a gendered lens at how women utilize urban space.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(18)
Kristine B. Miranne
Alma H. Young
Part I VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE? GENDERED URBAN BOUNDARIES
``Not Named or Identified'': Politics and the Search for Anonymity in the City
19(22)
Judith A. Garber
``The Two Major Living Realities'': Urban Services Needs of First Nations Women in Canadian Cities
41(24)
Evelyn Peters
Part II INTERSECTIONS OF GENDERED BOUNDARIES: RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY
Identity, Difference, and the Geographies of Working Poor Women's Survival Strategies
65(24)
Melissa R. Gilbert
Boundaries Cracked: Gendering Literacy, Empowering Women, Building Community
89(16)
Jennifer E. Subban
Alma H. Young
Black Women as City Builders: Redemptive Places and the Legacy of Nannie Helen Burroughs
105(14)
Daphne Spain
Women ``Embounded'': Intersections of Welfare Reform and Public Housing Policy
119(20)
Kristine B. Miranne
Part III CHALLENGING PLANNED BOUNDARIES
Theorizing Canadian Planning History: Women, Gender and Feminist Perspectives
139(18)
Sue Hendler
Helen Harrison
Resisting Boundaries? Using Safety Audits for Women
157(12)
Caroline Andrew
Sex, Lies, and Urban Life: How Municipal Planning Marginalizes African American Women and Their Families
169(14)
Marsha Ritzdorf
Manipulating Constraints: Women's Housing and the ``Metropolitan Context''
183(26)
Christine Cook
Marilyn Bruin
Sue Crull
Epilogue: Cracks, Light Energy 209(10)
Beth Moore Milroy
Index 219(8)
About the Editors and Contributors 227

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