A women's Berlin : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos
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| Autore: |
Stratigakos Despina
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| Titolo: |
A women's Berlin : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6644-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807938803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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