The invisible flâneuse?
Subtitle: gender, public space and visual culture in nineteenth-century Paris
By: edited by Aruna D'Souza and Tom McDonough.
Contributors: D'Souza, Aruna.; McDonough, Tom.
Series: Critical perspectives in art history
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780719067846
Subjects: Flaneurs in art; Public spaces in art; Public spaces -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century; Art, Modern -- 19th century
Description: "This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and social life. In rethinking the figure of the flâneur, the contributors apply the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of the period, including painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, and posters. Using a variety of approaches, the collection re-examines the long-held belief that life in Paris was divided according to strict gender norms, with men free to roam in public space while women were restricted to the privacy of the domestic sphere." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007533305-d.html.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and the haunting of cities (or, the retirement of the flâneur) / Janet Wolff; title: Women in public : the display of femininity in the parks of Paris / Greg M. Thomas; title: Dusting the surface, or the bourgeoise, the veil, and Haussmann's Paris / Marni Kessler; title: Disorienting Orient : Duret and Guimet, anxious flâneurs in Asia / Ting Chang; title: Transcrypts : some notes between pricks / Simon Leung; title: Not the flâneur again : reading magazines and living the metropolis around 1880 / Tom Gretton; title: The flâneuse in French fin-de-siècle posters : advertising images of modern women in Paris / Ruth E. Iskin; title: Why the Impressionists never painted the department store / Aruna D'Souza; title: City of strangers / Tom McDonough; title: The contemporary flâneuse / Helen Scalway; title: Afterword / Linda Nochlin.