Gendered SpacesUniv of North Carolina Press, 1992 - 294 pages 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 |
Contents
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 | 6 |
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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