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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
- Title
- Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London / Lauren Elkin.
- Author
- Elkin, Lauren
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-4925 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 317 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own lifea journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and Londonincluding the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film womens sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.
- Subjects
- Note
- "As read in BBC Radio 4"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-298).
- Call Number
- JFD 16-4925
- ISBN
- 0701189029
- 9780701189020
- LCCN
- 2016438449
- OCLC
- 928443704
- Author
- Elkin, Lauren, author.
- Title
- Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London / Lauren Elkin.
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-298).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-4925