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Informationen zum Autor Anne Enke is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, History, and LGBT Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Klappentext Analysis of spaces and institutions, from bookstores to softball fields, in which second-wave feminism arose in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities, claiming that sexuality issues were at heart of contests over public space. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Locating Feminist Activism 1 Part 1: Community Organizing and Commercial Space 1. “Someone or Something Made That a Women’s Bar”: Claiming the Nighttime Marketplace 25 2. “Don’t Steal It, Read It Here”: Building Community in the Marketplace 62 Part 2: Public Assertion and Civic Space 3. “Kind of Like Mecca”: Playgrounds, Players, and Women’s Movement 105 4. Out in Left Field: Feminist Movement and Civic Athletic Space 145 Part 3: Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions 5. Finding the Limit of Women’s Autonomy: Shelters, Health Clinics, and the Practice of Property 177 6. If I Can’t Dance Shirtless, It’s Not a Revolution: Coffeehouse, Clubs, and the Construction of “All Women” 217 Conclusion: Recognizing the Subject of Feminist Activism 252 Notes 269 Bibliography 335 Index 357
