1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466093803321

Autore

Spain Daphne

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0412-5

1-5017-0413-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

305.4209730904

Soggetti

Feminism - United States - History - 20th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 20th century

Public spaces - United States - History - 20th century

Urban women - United States - History - 20th century

Women and city planning - United States - History - 20th century

Feminism and architecture - United States

Feminist geography - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Spatial Consequences of the Second Wave -- 1. Feminist Practice: Social Movements and Urban Space -- 2. Women's Centers: Nurturing Autonomy -- 3. Feminist Bookstores: Building Identity -- 4. Feminist Health Clinics: Promoting Reproductive Rights -- 5. Domestic Violence Shelters: Protecting Bodily Integrity -- 6. After the Second Wave: Necessary Spaces -- Appendix A: Data Sources for Figure 3 -- Appendix B: Women's Centers, 1973 -- Appendix C: Feminist Bookstores, ca. 1980 -- Appendix D: Feminist Health Clinics, 1975 -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.Women's centers, bookstores, health clinics, and domestic violence shelters established feminist places for women's liberation in Boston, Los Angeles, and many other cities. Unable to afford their own buildings, radicals adapted existing structures to serve as women's centers that fostered autonomy, health clinics that promoted reproductive rights, bookstores that connected women to feminist thought, and domestic violence shelters that protected their bodily integrity. Legal equal opportunity reforms and daily practices of liberation enhanced women's choices in education and occupations. Once the majority of wives and mothers had joined the labor force, by the mid-1980s, new buildings began to emerge that substituted for the unpaid domestic tasks once performed in the home. Fast food franchises, childcare facilities, adult day centers, and hospices were among the inadvertent spatial consequences of the second wave.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455310303321

Autore

Linden Marcel van der <1952->

Titolo

Workers of the world [[electronic resource] ] : essays toward a global labor history / / by Marcel van der Linden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-282-39883-0

9786612398834

90-474-4284-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

Studies in global social history, , 1874-6705 ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

331

Soggetti

Labor - History

Labor movement - History

International labor activities - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-454) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter One. Introduction / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Two. Who Are The Workers? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Three. Why “Free” Wage Labor? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Four. Why Chattel Slavery? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Five. The Mutualist Universe / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Six. Mutual Insurance / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Seven. Consumer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Eight. Producer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Nine. Strikes / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Ten. Consumer Protest / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Eleven. Unions / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Twelve. Labor Internationalism / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Thirteen. World-System Theory / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Fourteen. Entangled Subsistence Labor / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Fifteen. The Iatmul Experience / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Sixteen. Outlook / M. Van Der Linden -- Bibliography / M. Van Der Linden -- Index / M. Van Der Linden.

Sommario/riassunto

The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using



literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world. The following questions are central: ▪ What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition? ▪ Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development? ▪ What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History?