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

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver : , : University of British Columbia Press, , 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 305.4/0971
• Soggetto topico: Women and city planning - Canada; Cities and towns - Canada; Feminism; Women - Employment - Canada; Sociology, Urban - Canada
• Altri autori: AndrewCaroline MilroyBeth Moore <1940->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Life spaces
• ISBN: 1-283-22602-2; 9786613226020; 0-7748-5663-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780685003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II