The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing /
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Author / Creator: | Feldman, Roberta M. |
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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 |
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