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Breaking the Gender Code
2023
Overview
A history of the activism that made public spaces in
American cities more accessible to women. From the closing
years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle-and not so
subtle-messages that they shouldn't be in public. Or, if they were,
that they were not safe. Breaking the Gender Code tells
the story of both this danger narrative and the resistance to
it.
Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of
urban gender segregation in the twentieth century, focusing on
organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities
accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the
Progressive Era, with its calls for public restrooms, safe and
accessible transportation, and public accommodations, through and
beyond second-wave feminism, and its focus on the creation of
alternative, women-only spaces and extensive anti-violence efforts.
In doing so, Hickey explores how gender segregation intertwined
with other systems of social control, as well as how class, race,
and sexuality shaped activists' agendas and women's experiences of
urban space. Drawing connections between the vulnerability of women
in public spaces, real and presumed, and contemporary debates
surrounding rape culture, bathroom bills, and domestic violence,
Hickey unveils both the strikingly successful and the incomplete
initiatives of activists who worked to open up public space to
women.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
ISBN
9781477328224, 147732822X, 1477328246, 9781477328248, 9781477328231, 1477328238
