Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London /

Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London /

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Pari...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elkin, Lauren (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Elkin, Lauren > Travel.
Women authors > Homes and haunts.
Women artists > Homes and haunts.
City and town life.
Flaneurs > History.
HISTORY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Table of Contents:
  • Flâneuse-ing
  • Long Island: New York
  • Paris: cafés where they
  • London: Bloomsbury
  • Paris: children of the revolution
  • Venice: obedience
  • Tokyo: inside
  • Paris: protest
  • Paris: neighbourhood
  • Everywhere: the view from the ground
  • New York: return
  • Epilogue: Flâneuserie.