|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewIn the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder. Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructure that included housing that would keep people inside the city, public toilets for women as well as men, housing for single, working women, and public spaces that were open and safe for all residents. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maureen A. FlanaganPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9781439915707ISBN 10: 1439915709 Pages: 390 Publication Date: 20 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMaureen A. Flanagan is Emerita Professor of History at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Michigan State University. She is the author of America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s, Seeing with their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933, and Charter Reform in Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |