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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Architectural History/Women's Studies"Despina Stratigakos takes us on a fascinating journey into a largely forgotten city at the heart of early twentieth-century metropolitan Berlin. Both imaginary and physical, A Women's Berlin is a space of agency in which women architects, designers, and patrons shaped not only a network of new institutions in the city but also a modern female subjectivity and urban identity for themselves as public citizens."--Eve Blau, Harvard UniversityAround the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the Germ.
Women's Berlin.
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Architecture and women-- Germany-- Berlin.
Space (Architecture)-- Germany-- Berlin.
ARCHITECTURE-- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
Architecture and women.
ARCHITECTURE-- Buildings-- General.
ARCHITECTURE-- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE-- Reference.
Social conditions
Space (Architecture)
Berlin (Germany), Social conditions, 19th century.
Berlin (Germany), Social conditions, 20th century.