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Format: 1 online resource (386 p.) : , 5 maps

ISBN: 9780822390381

Series Statement: Radical Perspectives

Content: In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They created alternative spaces, such as coffeehouses, where women could socialize and organize. They opened women-oriented bookstores, restaurants, cafes, and clubs, and they took it upon themselves to establish women’s shelters, health clinics, and credit unions in order to support women’s bodily autonomy.By considering the development of feminism through an analysis of public space, Enke expands and revises the historiography of second-wave feminism. She suggests that the movement was so widespread because it was built by people who did not identify themselves as feminists as well as by those who did. Her focus on claims to public space helps to explain why sexuality, lesbianism, and gender expression were so central to feminist activism. Her spatial analysis also sheds light on hierarchies within the movement. As women turned commercial, civic, and institutional spaces into sites of activism, they produced, as well as resisted, exclusionary dynamics.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , About the Series -- , Acknowledgments -- , ( Introduction ) Locating Feminist Activism -- , Part One Community Organizing and Commercial Space -- , ( One ) ‘‘Someone or Something Made That a Women’s Bar’’ -- , ( Two ) ‘‘Don’t Steal It, Read It Here’’ -- , Part Two Public Assertion and Civic Space -- , ( Three ) ‘‘Kind of Like Mecca’’ -- , ( Four ) Out in Left Field -- , Part Three Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions -- , ( Five ) Finding the Limits of Women’s Autonomy -- , ( Six ) If I Can’t Dance Shirtless, It’s Not a Revolution -- , ( Conclusion ) Recognizing the Subject of Feminist Activism -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822390381

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390381

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390381

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 369 Seiten) : , Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-8223-9038-1

Series Statement: Radical perspectives

Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle Landingpage (Duke University Press), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8223-4062-1

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-8223-4083-6

Language: English

Keywords: Feminismus ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Fallstudiensammlung

DOI: 10.1215/9780822390381

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (387 p.)

ISBN: 1-283-03555-3 , 9786613035554 , 0-8223-9038-8

Series Statement: Radical perspectives

Content: An analysis of the role public spaces-parks, clubs, book stores-played in shaping the feminist movement in three Midwestern cities during the 1960s and 1970s.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Introduction: Locating feminist activism -- "Someone or something made that a women's bar" : claiming the nighttime marketplace -- "Don't steal it, read it here" : building community in the marketplace -- "Kind of like Mecca" : playgrounds, players, and women's movement -- Out in left field : feminist movement and civic athletic space -- Finding the limits of women's autonomy : shelters, health clinics, and the practice of property -- If I can't dance shirtless, it's not a revolution : coffeehouses, clubs, and the construction of "all women" -- Conclusion: Recognizing the subject of feminist activism. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-4062-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-4083-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822390381