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

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...