Bibliograph

Flâneuse, women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, Lauren Elkin

Type

Label

Flâneuse, women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, Lauren Elkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-298)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flâneuse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

946692853

Responsibility statement

Lauren Elkin

Sub title

women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

Summary

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis

Table Of Contents

Flâneuse-ing -- Long Island: New York -- Paris: cafés where they -- London: Bloomsbury -- Paris: children of the revolution -- Venice: obedience -- Tokyo: inside -- Paris: protest -- Paris: neighbourhood -- Everywhere: the view from the ground -- New York: return -- Epilogue: Flâneuserie

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