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Stratigakos Despina |
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A women's Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Architecture and women - Germany - Berlin |
Space (Architecture) - Germany - Berlin |
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 19th century |
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Forgotten Metropolis; 1 Remapping Berlin: A Modern Woman's Guidebook to the City; 2 From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: The Politics of Clubhouse Architecture; 3 A Home of Our Own: Single Women and the New Domestic Architecture; 4 Exhibiting the New Woman: The Phenomenal Success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf; 5 The Architecture of Social Work: Workers' Clubs, Social Welfare Institutions, and the Debate over Female Housing Inspectors; Epilogue: What a Woman Must Know about Berlin, Twenty Years Later; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Architectural History/Women's Studies"Despina Stratigakos takes us on a fascinating journey into a largely forgotten city at the heart of early twentieth-century metropolitan Berlin. Both imaginary and physical, A Women's Berlin is a space of agency in which women architects, designers, and patrons shaped not only a network of new institutions in the city but also a modern female subjectivity and urban identity for themselves as public citizens." -Eve Blau, Harvard UniversityAround the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the Germ |
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