A women's Berlin building the modern city /
By: Stratigakos, Despina.
Material type: BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2008Description: 239 pages.ISBN: 9780816653225 (hc : alk. paper); 0816653224 (hc : alk. paper); 9780816653232 (pb : alk. paper); 9780816653225.Subject(s): -- Architecture -- Women -- 19th Century -- Social Conditions -- Berlin | Berlin (Germany)DDC classification: 720.82 Online resources: Table of contents only | Book review (H-Net)
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.
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 720.82 STR 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-230) and index.
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.
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