{"product_id":"constructing-the-patriarchal-city-9781439915707","title":"Constructing the Patriarchal City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructing the Patriarchal City \u003c\/i\u003ecompares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408315359575,"sku":"9781439915707","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439915707.jpg?v=1730502409","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-the-patriarchal-city-9781439915707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}