The invisible flâneuse : gender, public space and visual culture in nineteenth-century Paris /
edited by Aruna D'Souza & Tom McDonough.
- xi, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Critical perspectives in art history .
- Critical perspectives in art history. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Gender and the haunting of cities (or, the retirement of the flaneur) / Women in public : the display of femininity in the parks of Paris / Dusting the surface, or the bourgeoise, the veil, and Haussmann's Paris / Disorienting the Orient : Duret and Guimet, anxious flaneurs in Asia / Transcrypts : some notes between pricks / Not the flaneur again : reading magazines and living the metropolis around 1880 / The flaneuse in French fin-de-siecle posters : advertising images of modern women in Paris / Why the Impressionists never painted the department store / City of strangers / The contemporary flaneuse / Afterword / Aruna d'Souza and Tom McDonough -- Janet Wolff -- Greg M. Thomas -- Marni Kessler -- Ting Chang -- Simon Leung -- Tom Gretton -- Ruth E. Iskin -- Aruna d'Souza -- Tom McDonough -- Helen Scalway -- Linda Nochlin. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and social life. In rethinking the figure of the flaneur, the contributors apply the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of the period, including painting, caricature, illustrated magazines and posters. Using a variety of approaches, the collection re-examines the long-held belief that life in Paris was divided according to strict gender norms, with men free to roam in public space while women were restricted to the privacy of the domestic sphere. Thus the reader will be left with a more subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisin modernity." "Framed by essays by Janet Wolff and Linda Nochlin - two scholars whose work has been central to the investigation of gender and representation in the nineteenth century - this collection brings together new methods of looking at visual culture with a more nuanced way of picturing city life. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of art history and visual culture, but also to those in the fields of cultural studies, urban studies, French history and gender studies."--BOOK JACKET.