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Constructive Feminism - Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City (Hardcover)
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Constructive Feminism - Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City (Hardcover)
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In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and
unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social
movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women
and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context
of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space,
Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to end the
mandatory segregation of women and men in public institutions,
while radical activists created small-scale places that gave women
the confidence to claim their rights to the public sphere.Women's
centers, bookstores, health clinics, and domestic violence shelters
established feminist places for women's liberation in Boston, Los
Angeles, and many other cities. Unable to afford their own
buildings, radicals adapted existing structures to serve as women's
centers that fostered autonomy, health clinics that promoted
reproductive rights, bookstores that connected women to feminist
thought, and domestic violence shelters that protected their bodily
integrity. Legal equal opportunity reforms and daily practices of
liberation enhanced women's choices in education and occupations.
Once the majority of wives and mothers had joined the labor force,
by the mid-1980s, new buildings began to emerge that substituted
for the unpaid domestic tasks once performed in the home. Fast food
franchises, childcare facilities, adult day centers, and hospices
were among the inadvertent spatial consequences of the second wave.
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