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Relying on a range of visual and written sources,
Gender, Space, and the Gaze offers fresh ways of considering how masculinity and femininity were lived in late nineteenth-century Paris. The book moves beyond shopworn dichotomies, rooted in Baudelaire's "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863), that have shaped scholarship on this period.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
Chapter 1: Making up the Boulevard
Chapter 2: Gazing Women
Chapter 3: Windows and Balconies
Chapter 4: Men, Domesticity, and Family
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Temma Balducci is an Associate Professor of Art History at Arkansas State University. She was co-editor of and contributor to the companion volumes
Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 and
Women, Femininity, and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century European Visual Culture.
Summary
Relying on a range of visual and written sources, Gender, Space, and the Gaze offers fresh ways of considering how masculinity and femininity were lived in late nineteenth-century Paris. The book moves beyond shopworn dichotomies, rooted in Baudelaire’s "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863), that have shaped scholarship on this period.
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"Temma Balducci’s Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture contributes to a robust literature arguing that Baudelaire’s description of Parisian modernity and its protagonist, the flâneur, have been overprivileged in nineteenth-century studies. The author sets out to extend existing revisionist accounts by broadening our perspective on nineteenthcentury French social life, making room in the canon for diverse practices and practitioners, and calling into question established interpretations of familiar works of art. Readers will be refreshed by Balducci’s descriptions of women’s presence in public space and their pleasure in looking." - Allison Deutsch, R-France Review
