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This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship
between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite
the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all
citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and
radically liberating Transicion, the fact remains that not all
subjects-particularly, women, immigrants, and queers-possess equal
autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within
the nation's largest urban capitals-Madrid and Barcelona-and takes
a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these
spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically
unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public
and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these,
they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the
administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global
world.
This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship
between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite
the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all
citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and
radically liberating Transicion, the fact remains that not all
subjects-particularly, women, immigrants, and queers-possess equal
autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within
the nation's largest urban capitals-Madrid and Barcelona-and takes
a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these
spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically
unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public
and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these,
they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the
administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global
world.
In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do
clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually
men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to
Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in
which physical segregation has reinforced women's inequality. In
this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic
barriers that separate women and men in the office, at home, and at
school block women's access to the socially valued knowledge that
enhances status.
Spain looks at first at how nonindustrial societies have separated
or integrated men and women. Focusing then on one major advanced
industrial society, the United States, Spain examines changes in
spatial arrangements that have taken place since the mid-nineteenth
century and considers the ways in which women's status is
associated with those changes. As divisions within the middle-class
home have diminished, for example, women have gained the right to
vote and control property. At colleges and universities, the
progressive integration of the sexes has given women students
greater access to resources and thus more career options. In the
workplace, however, the traditional patterns of segregation still
predominate.
Illustrated with floor plans and apt pictures of homes, schools,
and work sites, and replete with historical examples, "Gendered
Spaces" exposes the previously invisible spaces in which daily
gender segregation has occurred -- and still occurs.
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.
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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