Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience in Europe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781138696976
Subjects: Disasters; City planning; Cities and towns
Description: "Employing a broad definition of catastrophe, this book examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes. Competing views of gender figure in the telling and retelling of these tragedies, which are mediated by myth and memory. This is a nuanced account that physically and metaphorically maps men and women into the urban landscape and the worlds of catastrophe"--Provided by publisher.