Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity

by Deborah L. Parsons

Book Overview

Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking the Metropolis, an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity in which Deborah Parsons re-draws the gendered map of urban modernism. Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the flaneur, the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186827
• ISBN13: 9780198186823
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"