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Gender trouble in paradise: Suburbia reconsidered

Gender in an Urban World

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1477-5, eISBN: 978-1-84950-557-4

Publication date: 14 February 2008

Abstract

One cannot think about suburbia without considering at the same time its intrinsic point of reference, namely the modern capitalist industrial city of the 19th century. As is generally known, disastrous social, sanitary, and hygienic conditions prevailed especially in the growing working class neighborhoods. These quarters were regarded as places from which considerable dangers for public order, health, safety, and morals emanated. At the same time, large parts of the middle classes interpreted the growing social meaning of the industrial city, in comparison to that of the countryside, as a menacing omen of the working classes gaining political power.

Citation

Frank, S. (2008), "Gender trouble in paradise: Suburbia reconsidered", DeSena, J.N. (Ed.) Gender in an Urban World (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1047-0042(07)00006-2

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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