A review by amberlen
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin

4.0

A more personal, less theoretical approach to the concept than I thought, but I still enjoyed it. Because Elkin primarily writes about her own experiences walking the cities she's lived in, the books feminism is mostly white feminism. Which is fine, except I would have wished for more acknowledgements that the practise of walking differs very much according to where you are and what you look like and that it might be easier for a white, heterosexual, middle-class woman to walk in Paris and New York than it is for others somewhere else. That being said, the book does make you want to take off and wander aimlessly. I could imagine everyone who likes Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost will enjoy this as well.