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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780685003321

Titolo

Life spaces : gender, household, employment / / editors, Caroline Andrew, Beth Moore Milroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver : , : University of British Columbia Press, , 1988

ISBN

1-283-22602-2

9786613226020

0-7748-5663-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

AndrewCaroline

MilroyBeth Moore <1940->

Disciplina

305.4/0971

Soggetti

Women and city planning - Canada

Cities and towns - Canada

Feminism

Women - Employment - Canada

Sociology, Urban - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Building Women, Building Cities: Toward Gender Sensitive Theory in the Environmental Disciplines -- Women Workers and the Inner City: Some Implications of Labour Force Restructuring in Montreal, 1971-81 -- Practical Idealism: Women in Urban Reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association -- Divergent Convergence: The Daily Routines of Employed Spouses as a Public Affairs Agenda -- Canadian Women's Housing Cooperatives: Case Studies in Physical and Social Innovation¹ -- New Families, New Housing Needs, New Urban Environments: The Case of Single-Parent Families¹ -- Interacting with The Urban Environment: Two Case Studies of Women's and Female Adolescents' Leisure Activities -- Gender-Specific Approaches to Theory and Method -- Annotated Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

These articles focus on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrate the importance of gender in the development of urban areas. They all point out that women must create



opportunities for democratic participation in the institutions that affect their lives.