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The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing - Environment and Behavior Feldman, Roberta M. (University of Illinois, Chicago)
The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing - Environment and Behavior
Feldman, Roberta M. (University of Illinois, Chicago)
This book chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. The volume challenges common portrayals of public housing residents in order to show how women residents creatively and effectively sustain daily life, create a vital community and save their home from demolition.
408 pages, 2 line diagrams 7 half-tones 1 table
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 9, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521593205 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 410 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 235 × 32 mm · 756 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Altman, Irwin |
| Series Editor | Stokols, Daniel |