| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; The Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 The Domestic Workplace; Introduction; 1. The Home: A Critical Problem for Changing Sex Roles; 2. The Household as Workplace: Wives, Husbands, and Children; 3. The Appropriation of the House: Changes in House Design and Concepts of Domesticity; 4. Redesigning the Domestic Workplace; Part 2 Urban Design: The Price Women Pay; Introduction; 5. Women's Place in the New Suburbia; 6. Women's Travel Patterns in a Suburban Development |
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7. Women in the Suburban Environment: A U.S.-Sweden Comparison8. Swedish Women in Single-Family Housing; 9. Toward Supportive Neighborhoods: Women's Role in Changing the Segregated City; Part 3 Women in Environmental Decisionmaking: Institutional Constraints; Introduction; 10. Architecture: Toward a Feminist Critique; 11. Women in Planning: There's More to Affirmative Action than Gaining Access; 12. No Academic Matter: Unconscious Discrimination in Environmental Design Education; 13. From Kitchen to Storefront: Women in the Tenant Movement; 14. Women at City Hall |
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Part 4 Women as Environmental ActivistsIntroduction; 15. The Los Angeles Woman's Building: A Public Center for Woman's Culture; 16. Emergency Shelter: The Development of an Innovative Women's Environment; 17. Housing for Single-Parent Families: A Women's Design |
| Summary |
In recent years, increasing self-awareness has led women to examine and question their environments-largely designed and structured by men-in light of their particular needs and experiences |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women.
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Space -- Social aspects.
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Self-consciousness (Awareness)
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women (female humans)
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Self-consciousness (Awareness)
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Women
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429696169 |
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0429696167 |
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9780429716171 |
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0429716176 |
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9780429736186 |
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0429736185 |
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9780429048999 |
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0429048998 |
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