Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940 - Hardcover

Simpson, Lee M. A.

 
9780804748759: Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804748756 ISBN 13: 9780804748759
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Between 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning. It suggests that women in California were not excluded from public life. Instead, they embraced the middle-class ideology of propertied self-interest and participated to the fullest extent possible in the urban struggle for regional dominance that shaped this period of western history. Likewise, as urban historians have presented this story as essentially male, this work suggests that although California's urban elite often maintained a division of labor along traditional gender lines, they clearly worked in a cross-gender alliance to shape a regional identity based on a commitment to urban growth.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lee M. A. Simpson is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento.


Lee M. A. Simpson is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento.

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“Thoroughly researched, this book will be of considerable interest to a broad range of scholars....All in all, this book is valuable both for its substantial accomplishments and for the questions it raises.”—American Historical Review
“[An] engrossing study of the historic role women have played in shaping California cities...”California History

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Between 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning. It suggests that women in California were not excluded from public life. Instead, they embraced the middle-class ideology of propertied self-interest and participated to the fullest extent possible in the urban struggle for regional dominance that shaped this period of western history. Likewise, as urban historians have presented this story as essentially male, this work suggests that although California's urban elite often maintained a division of labor along traditional gender lines, they clearly worked in a cross-gender alliance to shape a regional identity based on a commitment to urban growth.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804748756
ISBN 13 
9780804748759
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Anzahl der Seiten
232
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