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A women's Berlin : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos



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Autore: Stratigakos Despina Visualizza persona
Titolo: A women's Berlin : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina: 720.82
720.8209432
Soggetto topico: Architecture and women - Germany - Berlin
Space (Architecture) - Germany - Berlin
Soggetto geografico: Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 19th century
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: A women's Berlin  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6644-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807938803321
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