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233 reviews for:
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lauren Elkin
3.54 AVERAGE
233 reviews for:
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Lauren Elkin
3.54 AVERAGE
fast-paced
I really enjoyed this! Perfect thing to read at the beginning of uni in a new city that I need to figure out, studying for a degree that will hopefully land me in Paris for a year.
It was more personal than I expected - Tokyo, especially. Not a problem, really, just not what I'd anticipated.
It was more personal than I expected - Tokyo, especially. Not a problem, really, just not what I'd anticipated.
"It was as if there were two speeds of life in New York: married or very, very young." She nailed that. And her exploration of women walking on the street as a class issue. She describes walking in the suburbs: "The very appearance of another human, walking on foot, seems out of place and menacing." Her description of Tokyo highway crossings and address schemes drove my curiosity about that place away.
I wanted this to be more sociology and less memoir/biography.
I wanted this to be more sociology and less memoir/biography.