| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: a forgotten metropolis -- Remapping Berlin: a modern woman's guidebook to the city -- From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: the politics of clubhouse architecture -- Home of our own: single women and the new domestic architecture -- Exhibiting the new woman: the phenomenal success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture and women -- Germany -- Berlin
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Space (Architecture) -- Germany -- Berlin
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- General.
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Architecture and women
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Social conditions
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Space (Architecture)
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| SUBJECT |
Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Germany -- Berlin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816666447 |
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081666644X |
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0816653224 |
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9780816653225 |
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0816653232 |
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9780816653232 |
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