Constructing the Patriarchal City - Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s

Maureen 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.

About the author

Maureen 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.

Summary

"Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of groups of activist men and women in London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago from the 1870s into the 1940s. It demonstrates how the gendered ideals of patriarchy and domesticity shared across borders determined the reconstruction of their city's built environment"--

Product details

• Authors: Maureen A Flanagan, Maureen A. Flanagan
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781439915691
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1569-1
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Illustrations: 2 figs., 16 halftones
• Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History