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Autore: | Stratigakos Despina |
Titolo: | A women's Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
ISBN: | 0-8166-6644-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454887903321 |
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