Well, there are scholarly outlets for the work I'm doing on public space, but I want a place where my personal experiences and half-baked ideas can play along with my more academic and intellectual interpretations. After all, I may be all credentialed up as a scholar, but I am still a woman and I still negotiate allegedly "public" spaces everyday from that vantage point -- I watch people, I get harassed, I wait in lines to pee, I go to marches and rallies, I follow the rules of engagement (mostly), and I wonder about why my world looks like it does and how that built environment shapes my perception of what is right, good, and possible...
I started doing this type of pondering on my "regular" blog, so I think I will copy those posts and paste them up here. Unfortunately, I'll lose the comments they generated, but you can go look for them on Yesterdaylooksgood, if you are interested.
This is a place for me (and you, if you so choose) to ponder the role of gender in public space. I tend to think a lot about public restrooms, sidewalks, public buildings and businesses that purport to serve the public and I wanted a place to collect those thoughts and deposit my pictures as I write a book about the history of women and public space in the twentieth century urban U.S.
Public Bathrooms
Street/Sidewalk Culture
Public Accommodations
Transportation
Women's History and Women's Studies
Blogs
About Me
- Zoe the Wonder Dog
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
- I fit into many categories: woman, parent, historian, professor, author, white, middle class, midwesterner, leftie, hippie, 40-ish.
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