| Description |
x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Women and urban policy / J. Freeman -- City spatial structure, women's hosehold work, and national urban policy / Ann R. Markusen -- City lights : immigrant women and the rise of the movies / Elizabeth Ewen -- Changing women's roles in political volunteerism and reform of the city / Marilyn Gittell and Teresa Shtob -- Women in urban parks / Galen Cranz -- Masculine cities and feminine suburbs : polarized ideas, contradictory realities / Susan Saegert -- The health careers of urban women : a study in East Harlem / Marsha Hurst and Ruth E. Zambrana -- Older women in the city / Elizabeth W. Markson and Beth B. Hess -- Crime, women, and the quality of urban life / Margaret T. Gordon ... [et al.] -- The Chicago woman : a study of patterns of mobility and transportation / Helena Znaniecki Lopata -- What would a non-sexist city be like? Speculations on housing, urban design, and human work / Dolores Hyden -- Women in the urban environment / Gerda R. Wekerle -- Women, housing access, and mortgage credit / Emily Card -- Working women and city structure : implications of the subtle revolution / Elizabeth A. Roistacher and Janet Spratlin Young -- The history, status, and concerns of women planners / Jacqueline Leavitt -- Breaking down the barriers : women in urban management / Ruth Ann Burns -- A rape prevention program in an urban area / Community Action Strategies to Stop Rape -- Spatial and temporal dimensions of child care / William Michelson -- A women's self-help network as a response to service needs in the suburbs / Rosalie G. Genovese -- The role of women's social networks in the adoption of innovations at the grass-roots level / Lois Saxelby Steinberg -- Some trends in the community participation of women in their neighborhoods / Sandra Perlman Schoenberg |
| Notes |
"Articles ... originally appeared in Signs: journal of women in culture and society, supplement to volume 5, number 3 (spring 1980)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- United States.
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City and town life -- United States.
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Urban policy -- United States.
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Urban women -- United States.
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Women in community development -- United States.
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Women's rights -- United States.
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| Author |
Stimpson, Catharine R., 1936-
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| LC no. |
80053136 |
| ISBN |
0226774783 |
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0226774791 (paperback) |
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