Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist

Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)
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In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse womenâ‚¬s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on womenâ‚¬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 opened women-oriented bookstores, restaurants, cafes, and clubs, and they took it upon themselves to establish womenâ‚¬s shelters, health clinics, and credit unions in order to support womenâ‚¬s bodily autonomy.
By considering the development of feminism through an analysis of public space, Enke expands and revises the historiography of second-wave feminism. She suggests that the movement was so widespread because it was built by people who did not identify themselves as feminists as well as by those who did. Her focus on claims to public space helps to explain why sexuality, lesbianism, and gender expression were so central to feminist activism. Her spatial analysis also sheds light on hierarchies within the movement. As women turned commercial, civic, and institutional spaces into sites of activism, they produced, as well as resisted, exclusionary dynamics.
Country USA
Brand Duke University Press
Manufacturer Duke University Press Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2007-11-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780822340836

Country	USA
Brand	Duke University Press
Manufacturer	Duke University Press Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2007-11-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780822340836

Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Radical Perspectives)

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