Author: Schenker Heath M.
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1360-0524
Source: Gender, Place and Culture - A Journal of Feminist Geography, Vol.3, Iss.3, 1996-09, pp. : 293-308
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Abstract
This paper explores the mythic domesticity encoded in the Children's Quarter in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The play area, opened in 1888, represented a new genre of gender-specific public space developed in urban parks in the late nineteenth century. In welcoming women to the public domain of the urban park, gendered spaces such as the Children's Quarter signified a complex response to changing class and gender identities in the nineteenth-century city. Imposing a domestic structure on women's public presence, the Children's Quarter modeled a middle-class domestic ideal, affirming women's essential association with the private sphere even as it welcomed them to the public sphere of the urban park.
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