Practical Possibilities of Flâneuse: Can Women Walk and Look Around?

Mine Çimen

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Practical Possibilities of Flâneuse: Can Women Walk and Look Around?

Authors:

Mine Çimen

Publisher:

Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University

Main Topics:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Journal:

Abant Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi Vol.8 Issue 16, pp.49-63

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001302049

pISSN:

2528-9403

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Abstract:

 Flâneuse is a relatively recently coinage word as a female form of the nineteenth century flâneur, who was a representative figure of the modernity and urbanisation. Departing from this male figure, the practical possibility of its female counterpart will be scrutinised from a pro-urbanist and feminist perspective. The act of walking and the act of looking or being looked will be the main tropes of the study.

 Flâneuse is a relatively recently coinage word as a female form of the nineteenth century flâneur, who was a representative figure of the modernity and urbanisation. Departing from this male figure, the practical possibility of its female counterpart will be scrutinised from a pro-urbanist and feminist perspective. The act of walking and the act of looking or being looked will be the main tropes of the study.

 Flâneuse is a relatively recently coinage word as a female form of the nineteenth century flâneur, who was a representative figure of the modernity and urbanisation. Departing from this male figure, the practical possibility of its female counterpart will be scrutinised from a pro-urbanist and feminist perspective. The act of walking and the act of looking or being looked will be the main tropes of the study.

 Flâneuse is a relatively recently coinage word as a female form of the nineteenth century flâneur, who was a representative figure of the modernity and urbanisation. In order to understand the flâneuse, we need to understand the flâneur. As he gained his meaning through the context of Modernity, the period -with its social, economic and political aspects- is introspected in detail in the first part of the study. In the second part, departing from this male figure, practical possibilities of its female counterpart will be scrutinised from a pro-urbanist and feminist perspective. The act of walking and the act of looking or being looked will be the main tropes. Within the context, overall feminist literature will be visited and the contradictory ideas of feminist scholars who have written about the topic will be put on the agenda. Overall, the notion is suggested to be adopted not literally, but in metaphoric senses, and that there is an urgent need for a perspective which does not deny the womans space in urban studies.

Article Details

Practical Possibilities of Flâneuse: Can Women Walk and Look Around?

Authors:

Mine Çimen

Publisher:

Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University

Main Topics:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Journal:

Abant Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi Vol.8 Issue 16, pp.49-63

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001302049

pISSN:

2528-9403

flâneuse

urban studies

feminist researches

male gaze

female gazeflâneuse

şehir çalışmaları

feminist araştırmalar

eril bakış

dişil bakış

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Article Details

Authors: Mine Çimen

Publisher: Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University

Main Topics: İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Journal: Abant Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi Vol.8 Issue 16, pp.49-63

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 10/2023

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001302049

pISSN: 2528-9403

Issues

Authors:

Mine Çimen

Publisher:

Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University

Main Topics:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)

Journal:

Abant Kültürel Araştırmalar Dergisi Vol.8 Issue 16, pp.49-63

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2023

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001302049

pISSN:

2528-9403