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The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing / Roberta M. Feldman, Susan Stall.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Roberta M.
- Series:
- Cambridge series in environment and behavior
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in community organization--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- Women in community organization.
- Community leadership--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- Community leadership.
- Public housing--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- Public housing.
- African American women--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies.
- African American women.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- This chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing resident's grassroots activism.
- Contents:
- 1 Struggles for Homeplace 3
- Part II Wentworth Gardens' Historic Context
- 2 U.S. Public Housing Policies: Wentworth Gardens' Historic Backdrop 25
- 3 Memory of a Better Past, Reality of the Present: The Impetus for Resident Activism 59
- Part III Everyday Resistance in the Expanded Private Sphere
- 4 The Community Household: The Foundation of Everyday Resistance 91
- 5 The Local Advisory Council (LAC): A Site of Women-Centered Organizing 115
- 6 Women-Centered Leadership: A Case Study 151
- 7 The Appropriation of Homeplace: Organizing for the Spatial Resources to Sustain Everyday Life 179
- Part IV Transgressive Resistance in the Public Sphere
- 8 The White Sox "Battle": Protest and Betrayal 213
- 9 Linking Legal Action and Economic Development: Tensions and Strains 257
- 10 Becoming Resident Managers: A Bureaucratic Quagmire 295
- 11 Resistance in Context 341
- Appendix A Timeline of Wentworth Gardens Resident Activists' Key Initiatives 356
- Appendix B A Demographic Profile of the Resident Community Activists Interviewed, 1992-1998 358.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521593204
- 0521596866
- OCLC:
- 51477887
- Online:
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