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Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?”

Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los... Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?” Sonya Michel Gender and Women’s Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago Daphne Spain has provided an important critique of the Chicago and Los Angeles schools of urban theory from the perspective of gender relations. Drawing on both women’s history and contemporary feminist critiques of architecture and urban planning, Spain points out many ways the ap- proaches of both schools have been implicitly gendered male because they assume the typical urban dweller to be a man and ignore the ways women’s experience and use of cities differs from men’s over time. Spain calls for a rewriting of urban history and theory that includes the dimension of gen- der, and a rethinking of concepts such as “privatopias” and “containment centers” so that they can be applied within a gendered context. As a historian of women, men, and gender in the United States, I heartily concur with Spain’s critique; indeed, I think it might be taken even further. Having just taught a course on gender and modernity, I have been immersed in the recent literature on cities and spent a great deal of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?”

City and Community , Volume 1 (2): 1 – Jun 1, 2002

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SAGE
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
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10.1111/1540-6040.00015
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Response to Daphne Spain: “What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?” Sonya Michel Gender and Women’s Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago Daphne Spain has provided an important critique of the Chicago and Los Angeles schools of urban theory from the perspective of gender relations. Drawing on both women’s history and contemporary feminist critiques of architecture and urban planning, Spain points out many ways the ap- proaches of both schools have been implicitly gendered male because they assume the typical urban dweller to be a man and ignore the ways women’s experience and use of cities differs from men’s over time. Spain calls for a rewriting of urban history and theory that includes the dimension of gen- der, and a rethinking of concepts such as “privatopias” and “containment centers” so that they can be applied within a gendered context. As a historian of women, men, and gender in the United States, I heartily concur with Spain’s critique; indeed, I think it might be taken even further. Having just taught a course on gender and modernity, I have been immersed in the recent literature on cities and spent a great deal of

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Published: Jun 1, 2002

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