5 The Public Is Political. Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Right and Reason. Understandings of Women’s Presence in the Modern City 13
6. 2 Building Women into the City. Infrastructure and Services in the Early Twentieth Century 39
7. 3 The City and the Girl. Midcentury Consumption, Civil Rights, and (In)Visibility 65
8. 4 When Girls Became Women. Confronting Exclusion and Harassment in the Long 1960s 95
9. 5 The Public Is Political. Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods 119
10. 6 Taking Up Space and Making Place. Late-Century Institution Building 145
11. 7 Privacy in Public. The (Almost) Policy Revolution 175
12. Epilogue 201
13. Acknowledgments 213
14. Notes 215
15. Index 251