Daphne Spain taught in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia for 30 years. During that time, she wrote multiple articles and books, including Gendered Spaces (University of North Carolina Press 1992), How Women Saved the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and Constructive Feminism: Women’s Spaces and Women’s Rights in the American City (Cornell University Press, 2016). Having retired from writing academic books in 2016, she is now selling a variety of second-hand popular titles in her independent bookstore, 2nd Act Books, in Charlottesville, VA.
Daphne Spain
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Back to the Women’s Land
How do women gain power in a society economically and politically dominated by men? This question vexed mid-20th-century second-wave feminists. At issue was whether women should occupy male spaces or create their own female spaces. For example, was power acquired by demanding entry to traditionally masculine domains like Ivy League colleges, private clubs, and corporate […]
