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Life Spaces : Gender, Household, Employment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1988Copyright date: ©1988Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774856638
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life SpacesDDC classification:
  • 307.760971
LOC classification:
  • HT169.C3 -- L54 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Building Women, Building Cities: Toward Gender Sensitive Theory in the Environmental Disciplines -- 2 Women Workers and the Inner City: Some Implications of Labour Force Restructuring in Montreal, 1971-81 -- 3 Practical Idealism: Women in Urban Reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association -- 4 Divergent Convergence: The Daily Routines of Employed Spouses as a Public Affairs Agenda -- 5 Canadian Women's Housing Cooperatives: Case Studies in Physical and Social Innovation -- 6 New Families, New Housing Needs, New Urban Environments: The Case of Single-Parent Families -- 7 Interacting with the Urban Environment: Two Case Studies of Women's and Female Adolescents' Leisure Activities -- 8 Gender-specific Approaches to Theory and Method -- Annotated Bibliography.
Summary: This collection introduces a new chapter in feminist literature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrating the importance of gender in the development of urban areas.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Building Women, Building Cities: Toward Gender Sensitive Theory in the Environmental Disciplines -- 2 Women Workers and the Inner City: Some Implications of Labour Force Restructuring in Montreal, 1971-81 -- 3 Practical Idealism: Women in Urban Reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association -- 4 Divergent Convergence: The Daily Routines of Employed Spouses as a Public Affairs Agenda -- 5 Canadian Women's Housing Cooperatives: Case Studies in Physical and Social Innovation -- 6 New Families, New Housing Needs, New Urban Environments: The Case of Single-Parent Families -- 7 Interacting with the Urban Environment: Two Case Studies of Women's and Female Adolescents' Leisure Activities -- 8 Gender-specific Approaches to Theory and Method -- Annotated Bibliography.

This collection introduces a new chapter in feminist literature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrating the importance of gender in the development of urban areas.

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