Finding the Movement Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism

Name: Finding the Movement Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
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ISBN: 9780822340836

ISBN-10: 0822340836

ISBN-13: 9780822340836

Edition: 2007

Authors: Finn Enke, Daniel J. Walkowitz

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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…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



About the Series


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Locating Feminist Activism



Community Organizing and Commercial Space



"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



Public Assertion and Civic Space



"Kind of Like Mecca": Playgrounds, Players, and Women's Movement



Out in Left Field: Feminist Movement and Civic Athletic Space



Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index