New Space For Women

Gerda R. Wekerle (Ph.D., sociology) are associate professors in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Rebecca Peterson (Ph.D., psychology) are associate professors in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. David Morley (Ph.D., geography) are associate professors in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Also of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Domestic Workplace -- Introduction -- The Home: A Critical Problem for Changing Sex Roles1 -- The Household as Workplace: Wives, Husbands, and Children -- The Appropriation of the House: Changes in House Design and Concepts of Domesticity -- Redesigning the Domestic Workplace -- Urban Design: The Price Women Pay -- Introduction -- Women’s Place in the New Suburbia -- Women’s Travel Patterns in a Suburban Development -- Women in the Suburban Environment: A U.S.-Sweden Comparison -- Swedish Women in Single-Family Housing -- Toward Supportive Neighborhoods: Women’s Role in Changing the Segregated City -- Women in Environmental Decisionmaking: Institutional Constraints -- Introduction -- Architecture: Toward a Feminist Critique -- Women in Planning: There’s More to Affirmative Action than Gaining Access -- No Academic Matter: Unconscious Discrimination in Environmental Design Education -- From Kitchen to Storefront: Women in the Tenant Movement -- Women at City Hall -- Women as Environmental Activists -- Introduction -- The Los Angeles Woman’s Building: A Public Center for Woman’s Culture -- Emergency Shelter: The Development of an Innovative Women’s Environment -- Housing for Single-Parent Families: A Women’s Design