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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrew, Caroline.

Milroy, Beth Moore, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and city planning--Canada.

Women and city planning.

Cities and towns--Canada.

Cities and towns.

Feminism.

Women--Employment--Canada.

Women.

Sociology, Urban--Canada.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1-283-22602-2

9786613226020

0-7748-5663-7

OCLC:

243616480