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100 1 $aBalducci, Temma,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGender, space, and the gaze in post-Haussmann visual culture :$bbeyond the flâneur /$cTemma Balducci.
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,$c2017.
300 $axiii, 228 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 8 $aCharles Baudelaire's flaneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the gaze in late nineteenth-century Paris, despite misgivings by some scholars. Baudelaire's privileged and leisurely figure, at home on the boulevards, underlies theorizations of bourgeois masculinity and, by implication, bourgeois femininity, whereby men gaze and roam urban spaces unreservedly while women, lacking the freedom to either gaze or roam, are wedded to domesticity. In challenging this tired paradigm and offering fresh ways to consider how gender, space, and the gaze were constructed, this book attends to several neglected elements of visual and written culture: the ubiquitous male beggar as the true denizen of the boulevard, the abundant depictions of well-to-do women looking (sometimes at men), the popularity of windows and balconies as viewing perches, and the overwhelming emphasis given by both male and female artists to domestic scenes. The book's premise that gender, space, and the gaze have been too narrowly conceived by a scholarly embrace of Baudelaire's flaneur is supported across the cultural spectrum by period sources that include art criticism, high and low visual culture, newspapers, novels, prescriptive and travel literature, architectural practices, interior design trends, and fashion journals.
500 $a"An Ashgate Book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aFlaneurs in art.
650 0 $aFlaneurs in literature.
852 00 $boff,fax$hNX652.F55$iB35 2017g