The Flaneur - Walking in the City
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The Problem With Women's Movements
A woman simply cannot loitre along the pavement in that arrogant manner, can she? I mean, she is going to become the object of the gays rather than being the person who is doing the looking. A lot of the women who I'm looking at in this book are aware of that and trying to find ways to work within that when that has been a sort of an operative constraint for them. George Sand, for instance, writes in her autobiography about wanting to move unimpeded through the city. And so she puts on men's clothing, she borrows her brother's boots and, you know, a men's red coat and goes walking through the streets where she can become as
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