A Discussion on

Gender
Introduction

Feminist Postmodernism
Movement and
Multiculturalism

Women in Feminist
Feminist
Labor Planning
Movement
Force Theory

Woman
Planners and Civil Right
Professor Movement
 The differing uses of urban space by men
and women

The treats of personal safety of women in

cities
Addresses
Feminist many The impacts of traditional suburban housing
Perspective issues on antiquated nuclear family structure
of Urban
Live

The transportation needs of women beyond

the traditional journey work

Structural discrimination against woman in

economic development
 Feminist Thoughts on the Theory and
Practice of Planning
By Marsha Ritzdorf

The analyst of gender relevant:

- The economic status of women
- How women are located in & move through space
Criticized planning - The connection between capitalist production and
theory as a particularly patriarchal relationship; and between public and
male bastion domestic live
- How women know about the world
- Forms of communication women are most
comfortable with or most threatened
Planning
Wekerles (1980): Addressed
women activities in the urban
Between 1970s and environment, which have different
1980s literature daily life activities.
Rising women about women and
interest in planning flourished,
focused on practice Jacqueline Leavitt (1986): 49% of
and policy mothers of one-year-old babies are
currently working outside their home,
its estimate 80% mother of children
under the age of 18 will be in the
work force in the year 2000.
 Bearregard (1990): Strongly committed
to functional rationality as the basis of
human action and to the use of abstract
principles and rights as the criteria for
Sets of values and attitudes decision making
in planning theory about the
Criticized
role planning
of women
theory as a particularly
male bastion
The language and issues of
family life are significant to the
majority of women.
Planning
Reproductive and domestic
activities are inextricably bound
up with traditional economic
production in their assessments
How the feminist
Rising women Personal Political of policy and their analysis of
perspective merges
interest in Domestic work needed change
the boundary
Wage work
between
Interested in holistic approaches
to problems, and cooperative
problem solving and see issues
impacting their bodies, families,
neighborhood,
 Knowing Women Theory
By Helen Liggett

1. To challenge the kind of planning logic that once excluded women

2. To explore whether there can be differences without hierarchy and exclusion

GOA
L Women
Give equal
Experience as
value work of Foundation to redefine the
important
women : Planning Discipline
element in
general &
plans
planning field

To Recognize
the Important of
Reproduction
 Planning in a Different Voice
By Susan S. Fainstein

Contra Productive:
Historically, Rationalistic throw out the possibility of
has been the basis for rational assessment is to
progressive social contradict the
transformation in the epistemological basis of
Western World planning itself

Rationalism Feminist theory

introduce perspective
The abstract starts with concept of
No place for empathy and communal relations
personal relationship calculation of costs
and benefits and incommensurable
values
e
st itut
ub
to s

the development of Protects the weak and

consensus for adversarial recognized the importance of
approaches sentiment
 Some Thoughts About Difference and Pluralism
By Beth Moore Milroy
Distinguishes
Originate Difference Equality
Concept

Arise from more The Inequality that rise

fundamental sexual from social
origins, experiences, and arrangements
symbols

Men : control most influential sociopolitical

and cultural phenomena Women is primarily symbolized in Western
culture as counterfoil to men-as a mother
Figure as an object of male sexual fantasies
Women: have not objected more than they
have to substantial exclusion from these
decision
contributes to defining social
Pluralism relationship, power
differential
Certain behaviors sanctioned by
our society: homophobia,
patriarchy, violence against
women

PLANNING THEORY
Thank You..
 Women
Give equal
Experience as
value work of
important
women :
element in
general &
plans
planning field

To Recognize
the Important of
Reproduction