Suburban gender norms structured how the mobilizing movement operated.
Evidence
The gendered division of labor within the antibusing movement reflected the dominant social patterns of the postwar suburbs, as fathers represented the CPA in public meetings and media appearances and mothers performed almost all of the daytime activities such as answering queries and advertising rallies. Publicity revolved around an informal communications network that included telephone chains, distribution of fliers in carpool lines and the parking lots of churches and shopping malls, and word-of-mouth on subdivision streets and across backyard fences. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 68
Categorization
- SHARE: For someone studying grassroots suburban civic tactics, this informal network of carpool-line and PTA distribution is a specific, off-the-radar detail.
- XREF: connects to: Gendered norms proscribed the male gaze on women in public street space — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 675; 60s black liberation codified sexist role separation within the movement — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 30; Spatial retreat to communes preserved the white middle-class and gender hierarchies — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 164 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Suburban open-space campaigns shaped environmentalist rhetoric and organizing
#exemplifies(0.88) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 541 - Feminized language of rape became standard in suburban open-space advocacy rhetoric
#exemplifies(0.84) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 565 - 60s black liberation codified sexist role separation within the movement
#exemplifies(0.83) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 30 - Gendered norms proscribed the male gaze on women in public street space
#expands(0.82) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 675 - Spatial retreat to communes preserved the white middle-class and gender hierarchies
#expands(0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 164 - Urban movement competence lets women alone occupy specific public locations safely and without stigma
#contradicts(0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 602