Main entry:

Stratigakos, Despina.

Title & Author:

A women's Berlin : building the modern city / Despina Stratigakos.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.

Description:

xvii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Summary:

"Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780816653225 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816653224 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816653232 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816653232 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Börngen, ...
Architecture and women Germany Berlin.
Space (Architecture) Germany Berlin.
Architecture et femmes Allemagne Berlin.
Espace (Architecture) Allemagne Berlin.
Architecture and women.
Social conditions
Space (Architecture)
Architektur
Soziale Situation
Frau
Arkitektur städer Tyskland Berlin.
Samhällsliv genus 1800-talet 1900-talet.
Kvinnliga arkitekter Tyskland Berlin 1800-talet 1900-talet.
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 19th century.
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century.
Germany Berlin.
Berlin

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261253
Call No.: BIB 192265
Status: Available