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Simmons College MBA Program
Simmons CollegeSimmons College MBA program Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Opened:1975 Closed: 2015Somehow I missed this at the end of last summer. From WBUR:Simmons College Closing Nation’s Only...
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Last Call: Columbia's Queer Women and the End of the Lesbian Bar Era
I can't even comment on this kind of drivel anymore. These women are vaguely nostalgic for the old days, but can't seem to imagine anything better than being a marginalized person in a gay male bar,...
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British Rail "ladies only" train compartments
"Ladies Only" Train CompartmentBritish Rails "ladies only" train compartmentsLocation: United KingdomOpened: 1840sClosed 1977From the BBC News Magazine: The era of 'ladies only' train compartmentsBy...
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Women only communities: feminism's past or future?
This article doesn't refer to "lost" space per se. But it's an interesting read, though the author seems not entirely enthusiastic about the subject. From Buzz: Women only communities: feminism’s past...
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London's Feminist Library
A volunteer browses through the books at The Feminist LibraryFeminist Library Location: London, England Opened: 1975 Closed: Not closed yet, but endangered From a longer piece atWomens Enews:...
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Macy's Ladies Restaurant
Macy's Ladies RestaurantLocation: New York City, New York, USAOpened/Closed: c. 1880One of my very favorite blogs is Restaurant-ing through History. In a post on 1880s restaurants, the following is...
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Jecheon City Library
Jecheon, South KoreaJecheon City LibraryLocation: North Changcheong Province, South KoreaOpened: ?Closed: 2012I sincerely doubt that the fellow who filed the complaint had any interest in using this...
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Women-only bus (Zhengzhou, China)
Not a "lost" space per se, but certainly endangered--just as all womyn's space is these days. Once again, you have men complaining that women-only space is "sexist"--while simultaneously having no...
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Eleanor Residence for Working Women and Students
Former Eleanor Residence for Working Womenand StudentsEleanor Residence for Working Women and Students Location: 1550 N. Dearborn Parkway, Chicago, Illinois, USA Opened: 1898 Closed: 2001We're often...
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Steps and Stages Jubilee House women veterans homeless shelter
Steps and StagesSteps and Stages Jubilee House women veterans homeless shelter Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USAOpened: 2011 Closed: 2015From11 Eyewitness News: By Greg Barnes...
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College of St. Elizabeth
Students gather in the Holy Family Chapel on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth for a blessing before the 114th Commencement exercises. (Courtesy of the College of St....
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Midway College
Midway CollegeLocation: Midway, Kentucky, USAOpened: 1847Closed: 2016The die-off of women's colleges continues. And once again, how alumnae feel about it is ignored. From Inside Higher Ed: Midway U...
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mulans.comLocation: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, ChinaOpened: May 2015Closed: Still open?Not a lost space, but I don't consider that a hard and fast rule. Sometimes it's good to note up and coming...
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Women-only "pink carriages" on Australian trains
Female commuters wait to leave Tokyo's Shinjuku station in Keio private railway’s "Women Only" carriage. Source:AFPThis is really major. For years, we have been told that women-only public...
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Glastonbury festival's "The Sisterhood"
As genuine women-only space is stripped away--even places as seemingly innocuous as bathrooms and locker rooms--we seem to be seeing mainstream, male-dominated culture introducing a faux or "lite"...
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Women-only cars on Chicago CTA?
That this conversation is even taking place in the USA is fascinating. Liberals have told us for years that these things can't be done (that's discriminatory!) and shouldn't be done, because, you know,...
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Shakespeare's
Edmonton (1980s)Shakespeare'sLocation: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaOpened/Closed: 1990sShakespeare's is one of those lesbian bars that once existed, but there is so little information (readily) available...
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Tommy's Joint/Tommy's Place
Jeannie Sullivan & Tommy Vasu (far right) taken at Mona’s. Tommy's Joint (Later known as Tommy's Place)Location: 299 Broadway (1948-1952), 529 Broadway (1952-1954), San Francisco, California,...
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Ladies Restroom?
Great post on the history of the increasingly endangered ladies restroom by Jan Whittaker at her blog, Restaurant-ing through History. Ladies’ restroomsby victuallingPublic restrooms have been in the...
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Union Women's Lounge, Michigan State?
Union Women's Lounge (2015)Union Women's LoungeLocation: University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan, USAOpened: 1925Closed: Not yet, but endangeredWith the explosion in campus rapes, assaults, etc., you'd...
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