The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing /

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Author / Creator:Feldman, Roberta M.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:xx, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge series in environment and behavior
Subject:Women in community organization -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Community leadership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Public housing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
African American women.
Community leadership.
Public housing.
Women in community organization.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5131950
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Other authors / contributors:Stall, Susan.
ISBN:0521593204
0521596866 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-376) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Struggles for Homeplace
  • Part II. Wentworth Gardens' Historic Context
  • 2. U.S. Public Housing Policies: Wentworth Gardens' Historic Backdrop
  • 3. Memory of a Better Past, Reality of the Present: The Impetus for Resident Activism
  • Part III. Everyday Resistance in the Expanded Private Sphere
  • 4. The Community Household: The Foundation of Everyday Resistance
  • 5. The Local Advisory Council (LAC): A Site of Women-Centered Organizing
  • 6. Women-Centered Leadership: A Case Study
  • 7. The Appropriation of Homeplace: Organizing for the Spatial Resources to Sustain Everyday Life
  • Part IV. Transgressive Resistance in the Public Sphere
  • 8. The White Sox "Battle": Protest and Betrayal
  • 9. Linking Legal Action and Economic Development: Tensions and Strains
  • 10. Becoming Resident Managers: A Bureaucratic Quagmire
  • Part V. Conclusions
  • 11. Resistance in Context
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Timeline of Wentworth Gardens Resident Activists' Key Initiatives
  • Appendix B. A Demographic Profile of the Resident Community Activists Interviewed, 1992-1998
  • References
  • Index