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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lauren Elkin
3.54 AVERAGE
230 reviews for:
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lauren Elkin
3.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
It started to feel hard to understand the connection between the subject of each chapter, the actual topic of the book, and the author’s own life
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
This is such a wonderful premise, and the writing is strong if you like this sort of thing. And by this sort of thing I mean the reflections of a fairly out of touch white woman with lots of privilege telling you about her wonderful life. I don't like that sort of thing right now so I had to put the book down.
I came into this one expecting it to be a history book, but found it to essentially be an autobiography with some historical inserts. Not at all what I was expecting, but an interesting read nonetheless. Some insightful meditations on what it was and is to be a woman exploring the world around her.
Lacks focus at times. But I can confidently say it gave me lot of material to think about the relationship between women and public space.
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced