Description
Book SynopsisA history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
Trade ReviewIn charting women’s efforts across the nation to secure inclusion in urban public space over the long twentieth century, Georgina Hickey reveals how fundamental gender segregation was—and remains—to ‘organizing and stratifying’ American society….[G]ender segregation…’justified harassment and violence against other women,’ particularly women of color, immigrant, queer, and working-class women. This is a major contribution to both urban history and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. * Lit Hub *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Right and Reason: Understandings of Women’s Presence in the Modern City
- 2. Building Women into the City: Infrastructure and Services in the Early Twentieth Century
- 3. The City and the Girl: Midcentury Consumption, Civil Rights, and (In)Visibility
- 4. When Girls Became Women: Confronting Exclusion and Harassment in the Long 1960s
- 5. The Public Is Political: Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods
- 6. Taking Up Space and Making Place: Late-Century Institution Building
- 7. Privacy in Public: The (Almost) Policy Revolution
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
