Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
the first feminist act is to gaze, to say, ‘I am looked at, but I can also look.’
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
The protest is not only to show the government that you disagree, but to show your fellow citizens – even the smallest ones – that official policies can and should be disagreed with.
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
any social demonstration will be equal parts sincere and self-mythologising.
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
we ‘shed the self our friends know us by and become part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers’.
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
She expected to be taken as she was.
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
using cities as performance spaces or as hiding places;
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.
Lauren Elkin • Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
New York, where life is inflected with the future tense.