The Dignity of Resistance
Subtitle: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing (Environment and Behavior)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521593205
Subjects: Housing; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; Public housing; Community leadership; Social Science; Women in community organization; Sociology; Women in community organizatio; Social Science / General; Chicago; General; Case studies; Illinois
First sentence: The resident Beatrice Harris, one of the key figures in local organizing efforts at Wentworth Gardens, is speaking with great dismay about the abysmal living conditions of her "homeplace," a 422-unit low-rise Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) family development on the South Side.