Tied up in Tehran : Women, social change and the politics of daily life
, urbanité, usage de la ville, identité, women, femmes, genre, gender, mutation sociale, politique de la ville, espace urbain, Tehran, Téhéran, Moruzzi Norma Claire
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and based on extensive field work experience, the book project Tied Up in Tehran addresses one of the key paradoxes of contemporary Iran: women’s fragmented experiences of shaping a modern, urban identity in a postrevolutionary state that has explicitly Islamicized public institutions, space, and rhetoric, while also providing the conditions to enable women to emerge from the traditional private realm and engage actively as social and political agents. Although immediately after the 1979 Revolution the Iranian state tried to enforce a domestic, private, and religiously-defined traditional role for women, over subsequent decades both society and the state have become more accepting of women’s public participation in education, politics, and the workforce, and accustomed to their presence in mixed public spaces. Now, the argument in the Islamic Republic is not over whether women should be part of public life, it is over how they, and the youth of both sexes, should comport themselves as public and private citizens. In order to examine this gendered process of fundamental transformation within a highly politicized Muslim society and Islamic state, Tied Up in Tehran focuses on women’s public and private lives in the capital city, and the shifting dynamics of quotidian urban life: daily relations in the family, in the workplace, in the street, and on the body.</div>
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<b>Norma Claire Moruzzi </b>is Associate Professor of Political Science, Gender and Women's Studies, and History, and Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</div>
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Norma Claire Moruzzi
19 January 2010
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/whatwedo/eventsarchive/events0910/2010moruzzi.shtml
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
culture urbaine, Barcelona, Barcelone, histoire urbaine, politique de la ville, participation, mouvement social, femmes, women, gender, genre, conflit urbain, Kaplan Temma
<div><b>Extract from the introduction:</b></div>
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The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry were sometimes sufficient to galvanize resistance to national authoritarian governments but not always enough to overcome internecine struggles based on class and gender in the city itself. Most of all, I am concerned here with the process by which principles of regional freedom and economic equity developed and changed in a city long known for its commitment to human dignity and artistic achievement.</div>
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Women occupy a central place in this study of the creation and transformation of civic culture as a forum for political struggle. The grassroots politics in which activist women overwhelmingly participated has often been overlooked in studies of political life in Barcelona at this time. Yet because this study regards streets and cafés as political arenas, women's activities in them and in the movements that emanated from them assume a pivotal position in the arguments that follow.</div>
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From 1888 to 1939 the politics of region, class, and gender expressed themselves in terms of assorted communal manifestations of Barcelona's civic culture. Festivals and other street gatherings were prominent, providing a means to vent officially repressed aspirations as well as officially sanctioned sentiments. The same festivals or public events could serve divergent purposes at different times. They could express or encourage either local solidarity or internal struggle, celebration or opposition. Thus, civic forms could and did evolve over time, providing a rich and flexible political language that, in turn, gave rise to new strains of thought and new political options. This process both influenced and was reflected in the words of artists like Pablo Picasso, who came of age in Barcelona during this period.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Introduction - The symbolic landscape</div>
1. Resistance and ritual, 1888-1896</div>
2. Popular art and rituals</div>
3. Community celebrations and communal strikes, 1902</div>
4. Women out of control</div>
5. Female consciousness and community struggle, 1910-1918</div>
6. Democratic promises in 1917</div>
7. Urban disorder and cultural resistance, 1919-1930</div>
8. Cultural reactions to the Spanish Republic and the Civil War in Barcelona</div>
Epilogue - Cultural resistance in the aftermath</div>
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<b>Temma Kaplan </b>is Professor of History at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.</div>
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Temma Kaplan
University of California Press
1992
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http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9q2nb672/
Gender and sociability in early modern London
women, femmes, gender, genre, London, Londres, voisinage, community, communauté, interaction sociale, société urbaine, lien social, Reinke-Williams Tim, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, seizième s!ècle, dix-septième siècle, histoire urbaine
<div><b>Seminar description from the <a href="http://ihrprojects.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/spot-newsletter-19-october-2010/" target="_blank">IHR Digital blog</a> : </b></div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams from the University of Northampton presented to the Metropolitan History Seminar group, a paper entitled ‘Gender and sociability in early modern London’. This paper examines women of the middling sort and labouring poor in relation to London neighbourhood communities of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Reinke-Williams scrutinises this topic through neighbourliness, company and civility.</div>
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<b>Tim Reinke-Williams </b>is a Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton.</div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams
13 October 2010
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/2010-10-13-Tim-Reinke-Williams
Women's health and the world's cities
santé, health, gender, genre, women, femmes, urbanisation, environnement urbain, violence urbaine, politique urbaine, Meleis Afaf Ibrahim, Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face different health risks. Women suffer disproportionately from disease, injury, and violence because their access to resources is often more limited than that of their male counterparts. Yet, when women are healthy and safe, so are their families and communities. Urban policy makers and public health professionals need to understand how conditions in densely populated places can help or harm the well-being of women in order to serve this large segment of humanity.<br /> <br /> Women's Health and the World's Cities illuminates the intersection of gender, health, and urban environments. This collection of essays examines the impact of urban living on the physical and psychological states of women and girls in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Urban planners, scholars, medical practitioners, and activists present original research and compelling ideas. They consider the specific needs of subpopulations of urban women and evaluate strategies for designing spaces, services, and infrastructure in ways that promote women's health. Women's Health and the World's Cities provides urban planners and public health care providers with on-the-ground examples of projects and policies that have changed women's lives for the better.</div> </div> <b>Afaf Ibrahim Meleis</b> is Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing and Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the author of Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress.<br /> <b>Eugenie L. Birch </b>is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.<br /> <b>Susan M. Wachter</b> is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.</div> </div>
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Eugenie L. Birch Susan M. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania Press
September 2011
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Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
women, femmes, genre, San Francisco, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle, nineteenth century, twentieth century, espace public, histoire urbaine, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, Sewell Jessica Ellen
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco<br /> <br /> In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women’s ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women’s increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women’s suffrage.<br /> <br /> Focusing on women’s everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places—what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women’s presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco (Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively about their everyday experiences), Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history.<br /> <br /> Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it—and the country—for generations to come.</div> </div> <b>Jessica Ellen Sewell </b>is assistant professor of art history and American studies at Boston University.</div> </div>
Jessica Ellen Sewell
University of Minnesota Press
January 2011
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The urbanizing Middle East: The Brown journal of world affairs (Vol. 17, No. 1)
urbanisation, Middle East, Moyen Orient, Arab city, ville arabe, femmes, women, citoyenneté, ville en guerre, Dubai, Dubaï
<div><b>NB: To access the full text of these articles, free registration is required</b></div> </div> <b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The Brown Journal of World Affairs is a nonprofit, semi-annual publication produced at Brown University. It responds to the need for a clear, incisive, and dynamic examination of contemporary international issues. The Journal provides a forum for world leaders, policy makers, and prominent academics to engage in vigorous debate of intellectual breadth and vibrancy that bridges the gap between academic discourse and mainstream media.</div> </div> <b>Section contents:</b></div> </div> Hilal Khasan - The curse of underdevelopment and the radicalization of the Arab city</div> Valentine M. Moghadam - Urbanization and women's citizenship in the Middle East</div> Stephen Graham - Laboratories of war: United States-Israeli collaboration in urban war and securitization</div> Yasser Elsheshtawy - Little space, big space: Everyday urbanism in Dubai</div> </div>
Multiple authors
Brown University
Fall/Winter 2010
7-71
Revue
http://www.bjwa.org/index.php?issue=17.1
Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
femme, bidonville, violence, urbanisation, migration urbaine, Mumbai, Colombo, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Accra, Nairobi, women, genre, gender, COHRE
<div>A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights.</div> </div> The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities throughout the world, premised on the idea that both the causes and consequences of urbanisation for women are, in fact, unique and deeply related to issues of gender. Unfortunately, the question of women’s migration to the cities has, for too long, remained largely under-addressed and unexamined.</div> </div> Activists and scholars alike have tended to overlook and neglect women’s particular experiences within the context of ever increasing urban growth. Shining the light on these experiences makes this study truly distinctive. <br /> <br /> Working across the Americas, Asia, and Africa, COHRE interviewed women and girls living in six global cities, representing some twenty different (and indeed, diverse) slum communities.</div> </div> The stories shared by these women and girls elucidated the very personal struggles which women face in their day-to-day lives, as well as the broader connections that these struggles have to issues of gender-based violence, gender discrimination, and women’s housing insecurity. In turn – as this report makes clear – for women, these issues are themselves intimately connected to the global trend towards urban growth.</div> </div>
Multiple authors
COHRE
May 2008
134
Autre
http://www.cohre.org/view_page.php?page_id=309#i1041
Gender and territory : The connoted space. Artecontexto (No. 8, 2005, 4)
genre, femmes, gender, women, espace urbain, mondialisation, usage de la ville, art, Murría Alicia
<b>From the editorial by Alicia Murría :</b></div>
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Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the most recent decades, under the influence of cultural studies, gender, feminism in its many aspects, and, still more recently queer theory, have these patterns been questioned and demands been formulated for a city and public space whose terms of coexistence reflect the needs of the diverse sectors, groups, and minorities, and their actual complexity, in the face of the standard hegemonic model.</div>
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In the dossier contained in this issue we have gathered a series of articles that analyse and describe the need for profound changes in conceptions of the public space, the territory, the city, and their design, as well as the urgency of the debate, a debate that extends well beyond the sphere of those professionals who are directly involved in this design, since its outcome will affect the diverse assemblage of groups that make up the social body.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Page One - Alicia Murría<br />
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DOSSIER : Gender and Territory : The Connoted Space -<br />
Giantesses / Houses / Cities. Notes for a Political Topography of Gender and Race - Beatriz Preciado<br />
Have Urban Spaces a Gender? - Jose Miguel G. Cortés<br />
Gender and Globalisation: Artists on the Border - Patricia Mayayo<br />
The Pleasure of Cities - Marta Román<br />
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Begoña Montalbán : Clinical White - Luca Beatrice<br />
From Buenos Aires : Roberto Jacoby - Gustavo Marrone<br />
Japanese Museums : Two Viewpoints - Agnaldo Farias<br />
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Cibercontexto : Gender, Civic Participation and City Planning - Eugenia Monroy<br />
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Reviews</div>
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<b>Alicia Murría </b>is an art critic and the director and editor of Artecontexto magazine.</div>
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<b>NB : </b>All articles are available in English and Spanish versions.</div>
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NC
Artehoy Publicaciones y Gestión, S.L.
2005
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http://www.artecontexto.com/en/magazine-8.html
Women and urban settlement
women, femmes, gender, genre, participation, migration urbaine, déplacement de population, développement urbain, health, santé, Sweetman Caroline
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The articles in this edition examine gender issues and human settlement, and emphasise the interconnectedness of all aspects of women's and men's lives, and the links between people's physical surroundings and what they do to survive.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Caroline Sweetman - Editorial</div>
Jo Beall - Participation in the city : Where do women fit in?</div>
Seteney Shami - Gender, domestic space, and urban upgrading : A case study from Amman</div>
Delia Davin - Gender and rural-urban migration in China</div>
Sue Emmott - 'Dislocation', shelter, and crisis : Afghanistan's refugees and notions of home</div>
Valli F. K. Yanni - 'Women with self-esteem are healthy women' : Community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil</div>
Feleke Tadele - Sustaining urban development through participation : An Ethiopian case study</div>
Interview : Chris Peters talks to Catalina Trujillo about her work for the UN Agency Habitat</div>
Carole Rakodi - Woman in the city of man : Recent contributions to the gender and human settlements debate</div>
Resources</div>
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<b>Caroline Sweetman </b>is Editor of the international journal 'Gender and Development' and a gender adviser in the Policy Department of Oxfam Great Britain.</div>
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NC
Oxfam
1996
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http://books.google.com/books?id=baR6KlE7wtwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false