{"product_id":"breaking-the-gender-code-women-and-urban-public-space-in-the-twentieth-century-united-states-hardback-9781477328224","title":"Breaking the Gender Code; Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States (Hardback) 9781477328224","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBreaking the Gender Code\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorgina Hickey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477328224, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn charting women’s efforts across the nation to secure inclusion in urban public space over the long twentieth century, Georgina Hickey reveals how fundamental gender segregation was-and remains-to ‘organizing and stratifying’ American society….[G]ender segregation…’justified harassment and violence against other women,’ particularly women of color, immigrant, queer, and working-class women. This is a major contribution to both urban history and women’s, gender and sexuality studies.\u003c\/div\u003e (Lit Hub) \u003cdiv\u003eAn engaging book for every woman ever ordered to smile by a male stranger. . . Hickey's important new volume is certain to provoke vigorous discussion and further research about the challenges facing women in public spaces. . . Highly recommended.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003eBreaking the Gender Code\u003c\/i\u003e] demonstrate[s] just how omnipresent and persistent questions of gender, space, and power have been in modern urban life. As [Hickey’s] account establishes, even though ground has been won in the struggle against gender segregation, the overarching popular narrative-that women in public are somehow at risk and responsible for their own safety-endures in some fashion to this day…[Hickey’s book has an] engaging style, clear analysis, and relatable themes…[and] I look forward to using \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Gender Code\u003c\/i\u003e in my own teaching and am sure other historians will as well.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Social History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Gender Code\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of both this danger narrative and the resistance to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Right and Reason: Understandings of Women’\u003cbr\u003es Presence in the Modern City \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Building Women into the City: Infrastructure and Services in the Early Twentieth Century \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. The City and the Girl: Midcentury Consumption, Civil Rights, and (In)Visibility \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. When Girls Became Women: Confronting Exclusion and Harassment in the Long 1960s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. The Public Is Political: Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Taking Up Space and Making Place: Late-Century Institution Building \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Privacy in Public: The (Almost) Policy Revolution \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742619955480,"sku":"9781477328224","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/breaking-the-gender-code-women-and-urban-public-space-in-the-twentieth-century-united-states-hardback-9781477328224","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}