Daphne Spain: 2 books

Book cover of Gendered Spaces
by Daphne Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced...
Book cover of Constructive Feminism

Constructive Feminism

Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City

by Daphne Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that...
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