ISBN10: 0252063996, ISBN13: 9780252063992, [publisher: University of Illinois Press 1994-01-01, Champaign] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]

Champaign University of Illinois Press 1994 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 0252063996, ISBN13: 9780252063992, [publisher: University of Illinois Press, Baltimore] Softcover Paperback. "A fast-moving, insightful, politically astute and upfront feminist examination of the power struggles involved in building and controlling space." -- Women's Review of Books "A readable account of the force of male dominance in the built environment. . . . Those looking to this book for a clearer vision of the changes that need to be made in the organization and design of housing, work, and public space to foster gender equality will not be disappointed." -- Journal of Planning Education and Research "A pioneering work that will pave new territory not only for feminists but all those who are prepared to rethink environmental and societal issues." -- Choice Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Leslie Kanes Weisman offers a new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, department store, shopping mall, nuclear family dream house, and public housing high rise. Her vivid prose is based on exhaustive research and documents how each setting, along with public parks and streets, embodies and transmits the privileges and penalties of social caste. In presenting feminist themes from a ...
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