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

• Published in: No Permanent Waves p. 329
• Main Author: ROBERTA S. GOLD
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• 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
• ISBN: 9780813547244; 0813547245

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