Gendered analysis of familiar urban topics provides new insights for our understanding of urban studies, not only by counting women who had formerly been invisible but also by integrating their presence into our explanatory frameworks and normative insights. Gender in Urban Research provides an introduction to urbanists who have not considered the implications of gender in their research and contributes to the existing body of work on women and cities. This volume seeks to bridge feminist theories and theories of the state. The selections presented here serve as examples of how this may be done. Issues considered include violence against women, public housing, downtown development, child care, welfare, employment, and the political roles of women and minorities. This volume provides stimulating theoretical and empirical treatments in urban scholarship and is a must-read for students and scholars in urban studies, gender studies, and political science. "These short, most readable chapters illustrate some of the many ways in which women′s--and Latinas′, poor women′s, and African American women′s--lives differ from ′the norm′--that is from those of middle-class white male planners and policymakers." --Journal of the American Planning Association

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: COMMUNITY Gender, Place and Citizenship - Lynn A Staeheli and Susan E Clarke Defining Feminist Community - Judith A Garber Place, Choice and the Urban Politics of Difference The Gender Regimes of American Cities - Lynn M Appleton Women Organizing Their Place in Restructuring Economies - Louise Jezierski Women and Collective Action in Urban Neighborhoods - Gordana Rabrenovic PART TWO: POLITICS Getting Women′s Issues on the Municipal Agenda - Caroline Andrew Violence against Women Gender and the Politics of Affordable Housing - Susan Abrams Beck The Rise and Decline of African-American Political Power in Richmond - Lewis A Randolph and Gayle T Tate Race, Class and Gender Electing Women to Local Office - Susan A MacManus and Charles S Bullock III Developing Rape Program and Policies Based on Women′s Victimization Experiences - Lyn Kathlene A University/Community Model Women′s Need for Child Care - Alma H Young and Kristine B Miranne The Stumbling Block in the Transition from Welfare to Work Strategies for Serving Latina Battered Women - Anna M Santiago and Merry Morash Gender, Race and the Spatial Context of Women′s Employment - Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Sara McLafferty and Valerie Preston Public Housing and the Beguinage - Daphne Spain Concern for Gender in Central-City Development Policy - Robyne S Turner