Suffragette City

Suffragette City provides many surprises. These lively essays document women's activist coalitions aimed at reforming housing and the built environment in several national contexts. Highly recommended for readers interested in the history of feminism, architecture, and city life. Dolores Hayden, author of The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, Professor Emerita, Yale University Suffragette City: Gender, Politics and the Built Environment is a wonderful book-a remarkable, timely achievement. Clearly written with verve and with conviction, and using little-known and important examples, the authors share stories of women in architecture and their work to build a better, more just, more equitable world. It is indispensable reading for architects, activists, historians, and women everywhere. Marta Gutman, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center In the spirit of Emmeline Pankhurst, this valuable collection of histories emphasizes deeds, not words : Suffragette City describes a metaphorical place where women design and preserve their cities, transform the professions that marginalized them, and reinvent their homes and architecture in ways previously unimagined by men. It is also, in the end, a call for new deeds to achieve equal rights to the city and to the professions that shape the built environment. Peter L. Laurence, author of Becoming Jane Jacobs