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BL
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1022912
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b777282
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| Main Entry
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Stratigakos, Despina.
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A women's Berlin : : building the modern city /\ Despina Stratigakos.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, 2008.
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1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages)
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| ISBN
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0816653224
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: 0816653232
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: 081666644X
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: 9780816653225
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: 9780816653232
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: 9780816666447
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9780816653225
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9780816653232
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Architecture and women-- Germany-- Berlin.
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Space (Architecture)-- Germany-- Berlin.
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Architecture and women.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Adaptive Reuse Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Buildings-- General.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Reference.
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Social conditions
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Space (Architecture)
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Berlin (Germany), Social conditions, 19th century.
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Berlin (Germany), Social conditions, 20th century.
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Germany, Berlin.
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| Dewey Classification
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720.82/0943155
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NA2543.W65S77 2008eb
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