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Women and the City, Women in the City

Nazan Maksudyan
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Author : Nazan Maksudyan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782384120

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An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.

Women and the City

Sarah Deutsch
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Author : Sarah Deutsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195158649

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A penetrating analysis of how women shaped public and private space in Boston - and how space shaped women's lives in turn - during a period of dramatic change in American cities.

The City of Women

Ruth Landes
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Author : Ruth Landes
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0826315569

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This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.

Women and the City in French Literature and Culture

Siobhán McIlvanney,Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
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Author : Siobhán McIlvanney,Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786834331

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Women and the City in French Literature and Culture by Siobhán McIlvanney,Gillian Ni Cheallaigh Pdf

The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.

City of Women

David R. Gillham
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Author : David R. Gillham
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 039916152X

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Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.

Italian Women and the City

Janet Levarie Smarr,Daria Valentini
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Author : Janet Levarie Smarr,Daria Valentini
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639658

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Italian Women and the City by Janet Levarie Smarr,Daria Valentini Pdf

Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, citta, ville -- the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city. with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces?

Women and the City

J. Darke,Sue Ledwith,R. Woods
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Author : J. Darke,Sue Ledwith,R. Woods
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106015631622

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Women and the City by J. Darke,Sue Ledwith,R. Woods Pdf

Using case-studies from Oxford to Beijing and Chicago, Women and the City shows women constructing their lives in the urban environment, sometimes working against a system where needs are marginalized. Women are shown as community activists, homeless women, carers, patients, travellers, rock musicians and workers. The book emphasizes women as active agents, and the contributors include women working in urban management as well as academics from diverse backgrounds.

CITY OF WOMEN

Christine Stansell
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Author : Christine Stansell
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307826503

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In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen possibilities for themselves in work and in politics. Christine Stansell shows how a new concept of womanhood took shape in America as middle-class women constituted themselves the moral guardians of their families and of the nation, while poor workingwomen, cut adrift from the family ties that both sustained and oppressed them, were subverting—through their sudden entry into the working and political worlds outside the home—the strict notions of female domesticity and propriety, of “woman’s place” and “woman’s nature,” that were central to the flowering and the image of bourgeois life in America. Here we have a passionate and enlightening portrait of New York during the years in which it was becoming a center of world capitalist development, years in which it was evolving in dramatic ways, becoming the city it fundamentally is. And we have, as well, a radically illuminating depiction of a class conflict in which the dialectic of female vice and virtue was a central issue. City of Women is a prime work of scholarship, the first full-scale work by a major new voice in the fields of American and urban history.

Nonstop Metropolis

Rebecca Solnit,Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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Author : Rebecca Solnit,Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520285958

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This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.

Women and the Everyday City

Jessica Ellen Sewell
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Author : Jessica Ellen Sewell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816669738

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In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women's ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women's increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women's suffrage. Focusing on women's everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places-what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women's presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco-Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively on their everyday experiences-Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history. Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it-and the country-for generations to come.

Flaneuse

Lauren Elkin
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Author : Lauren Elkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448191956

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*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay* Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street 'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.' If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then what exactly is a flâneuse? In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as ‘a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk’. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the flâneuses who have lived and walked in those cities. From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Flâneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.

The Book of the City of Ladies

Christine Pizan
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Author : Christine Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141907581

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Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.

The Girls of Atomic City

Denise Kiernan
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Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451617535

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The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan Pdf

Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

Violence in the City of Women

Sarah J. Hautzinger
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Author : Sarah J. Hautzinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520252776

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Violence in the City of Women by Sarah J. Hautzinger Pdf

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.

Working Women in Mexico City

Susie S. Porter
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Author : Susie S. Porter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816522685

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Working Women in Mexico City by Susie S. Porter Pdf

The years from the Porfiriato to the post-Revolutionary regimes were a time of rising industrialism in Mexico that dramatically affected the lives of workers. Much of what we know about their experience is based on the histories of male workers; now Susie Porter takes a new look at industrialization in Mexico that focuses on women wage earners across the work force, from factory workers to street vendors. Working Women in Mexico City offers a new look at this transitional era to reveal that industrialization, in some ways more than revolution, brought about changes in the daily lives of Mexican women. Industrialization brought women into new jobs, prompting new public discussion of the moral implications of their work. Drawing on a wealth of material, from petitions of working women to government factory inspection reports, Porter shows how a shifting cultural understanding of working women informed labor relations, social legislation, government institutions, and ultimately the construction of female citizenship. At the beginning of this period, women worked primarily in the female-dominated cigarette and clothing factories, which were thought of as conducive to protecting feminine morality, but by 1930 they worked in a wide variety of industries. Yet material conditions transformed more rapidly than cultural understandings of working women, and although the nation's political climate changed, much about women's experiences as industrial workers and street vendors remained the same. As Porter shows, by the close of this period women's responsibilities and rights of citizenshipÑsuch as the right to work, organize, and participate in public debateÑwere contingent upon class-informed notions of female sexual morality and domesticity. Although much scholarship has treated Mexican women's history, little has focused on this critical phase of industrialization and even less on the circumstances of the tortilleras or market women. By tracing the ways in which material conditions and public discourse about morality affected working women, Porter's work sheds new light on their lives and poses important questions for understanding social stratification in Mexican history.