Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
305.4 ELKIN
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305.4 ELKIN
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-298).
Description
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 Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis.