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A women's Berlin : building the modern city

Title
A women's Berlin : building the modern city / Despina Stratigakos.
Author
Stratigakos, Despina.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

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Description
xvii, 239 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Architecture and women > Germany > Berlin
  • Space (Architecture) > Germany > Berlin
  • Berlin (Germany) > Social conditions > 19th century
  • Berlin (Germany) > Social conditions > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-230) and index.
Contents
Introduction: a forgotten metropolis -- Remapping Berlin: a modern woman's guidebook to the city -- From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: the politics of clubhouse architecture -- Home of our own: single women and the new domestic architecture -- Exhibiting the new woman: the phenomenal success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf -- Architecture of social work: workers' clubs, social welfare institutions, and the debate over female housing inspectors -- Epilogue: What a woman must know about Berlin, twenty years later.
Call Number
JFF 08-1134
ISBN
  • 9780816653225 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816653224 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816653232 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816653232 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008010012
OCLC
212909047
Author
Stratigakos, Despina.
Title
A women's Berlin : building the modern city / Despina Stratigakos.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-230) and index.
Research Call Number
JFF 08-1134
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