I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before Intergenerational Feminism in New York City’s Tenant Movement

With the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many young feminists went looking for a “usable past” of women’s achievement. In New York City, they did not have to look far. New York’s tenant councils had, for decades, operated under predominantly female lea...

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Published inNo Permanent Waves p. 329
Main Author ROBERTA S. GOLD
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Rutgers University Press 16.02.2010
Subjects
Apartment buildings
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Boards of directors
Buildings
Business
Business administration
Civil law
Civil rights movements
Corporate boards
Corporate governance
Councils
Evictions
Feminism
Gender studies
Government
Housing
Human geography
Human rights movements
Human societies
Landlord tenant law
Law
Left wing politics
Legal rights
Local government
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Political spectrum
Property law
Property rights
Real property law
Residential buildings
Social movements
Social sciences
Sociology
Squatters rights
Tenancy
Tenants
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Summary:With the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many young feminists went looking for a “usable past” of women’s achievement. In New York City, they did not have to look far. New York’s tenant councils had, for decades, operated under predominantly female leadership. And in the late 1960s these organizations supported a new wave of squatter campaigns aimed at relieving the city’s shortage of affordable housing. As young activists rallied to support the squats, they encountered the senior generation of female leaders who directed local and citywide tenant groups. These older women became
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