Feminist Knowledge Production in Urban Planning, 1975-1985

• In Event: Taking Up Space: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Women’s Activism in Public

Abstract

The first women to become planning scholars in the U.S. came from urban social movements. By pushing against disciplinary boundaries and working to dismantle borders between the academy and urban feminist practice, they highlighted social aspects of planning, emphasized the relationship between gender norms and the built environment, and reconceptualized urban and academic epistemologies. This paper examines modes of feminist knowledge production centering questions of gender and urban space during the 1970s and 80s, including conferences, interdisciplinary feminist journals, and educational collectives, and reflects on their implications for both planning and feminist studies.

Presenter

• Bri Gauger, University of Michigan