Gendered Spaces

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1992 - 294 Seiten
In hundreds of businesses, secretaries_usually women_do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers_usually men_work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which phys
 

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Space and Status
Spatial Institutions in Nonindustrial Societies
The Mongolian Ger and the Tuareg Tent
Ceremonial Mens Huts
The Spatial Division of Labor
Spatial Institutions in the United States
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Education
The NineteenthCentury Workplace
The Contemporary Workplace
Degendering Spaces
Data and Methods
CrossCultural Sample and References for Gender Segregation Data
References
Index

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Autoren-Profil (1992)

Daphne Spain is James M. Page Professor and Chair, Department of Urban & Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. She is author of How Women Saved the City.

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