The Sphinx in the City
Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
Elizabeth Wilson

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Author(s)

Elizabeth Wilson

Publisher, year

Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1991

Scope

191 p., illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

0520078500

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The figure of the Sphinx represents the consequent disorder, that threatens urban life with chaos and disintegration. The working classes and ethnic minorities have often been percieved as dangerous to urban order, here Elizabeth Wilson explores the way in which women are the object of attempts to control.

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Location

Sexuality ; Gender and Space

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.