02900nam 2200565Ia 450 991077832830332120230207230432.00-8166-6644-X(CKB)1000000000788750(EBL)471777(OCoLC)503444808(SSID)ssj0000273568(PQKBManifestationID)11247459(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273568(PQKBWorkID)10313877(PQKB)10425023(MiAaPQ)EBC471777(Au-PeEL)EBL471777(CaPaEBR)ebr10326379(EXLCZ)99100000000078875020080304d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA women's Berlin[electronic resource] building the modern city /Despina StratigakosMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20081 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5322-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexArchitectural 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 GermArchitecture and womenGermanyBerlinSpace (Architecture)GermanyBerlinBerlin (Germany)Social conditions19th centuryBerlin (Germany)Social conditions20th centuryArchitecture and womenSpace (Architecture)720.82720.8209432Stratigakos Despina1576530MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778328303321A women's Berlin3854388UNINA