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Title: From Home to Highway: Gender and the San Francisco Freeway Revolts

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: My research aims to examine how and why gender influenced the San Francisco Freeway Revolts of the 1950s and 1960s. This includes determining the extent and impact of female participation in these protests, San Francisco freeways connection to the environment, and how gender roles affected neighborhood activism. While there have been many analyses of these Revolts, rarely have any given more than a cursory glance at gender as a foundational concept within San Francisco. To accomplish this, I scoured local newspaper archives and personal correspondence while conducting interviews with former activists to establish a previously unseen picture of genders importance in this activism. I then incorporated this information on a conceptual level to genders relationship with home, space, and the environment.

Url: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mm814mr#page-1

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Authors: Germain, Justin

Conference Name: 2016 SURF Conference Proceedings

Publisher Location: Berkeley

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Other

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