Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940
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Lee M. A. Simpson (Author)
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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Lee M. A. Simpson is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento.
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- Contributor: Lee M. A. Simpson
- Imprint: Stanford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780804748759
- Number of Pages: 232
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 445
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Release Date: 2004-07-28
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Lee M. A. Simpson is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento.
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