Tolstokorova Alissa Valerievna,
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor,
Research expert,
International School for Equal Opportunities
Kyiv, Ukraine
e-mail: alicetol@yahoo.com, talissa@ukr.net

Swans on the Pavement:
Women’s Spatial Emancipation in the Context of Development of
Female Urban Culture at the Turn of the 19th – 20th Centuries

Abstract. The paper analyzes the specificity of development of such an important but understudied historical trend as the acquisition by women of spatial and physical freedom in the public sphere on the edge of the 19th-20th centuries. The key research question being the significance of gender and socio-spatial factors in the formation of female urban culture throughout modernity, the author introduces an analytical concept of “women’s spatial emancipation”.

Key words. women’s spatial emancipation, female urban culture, gendered mental maps, gendered co-spatiality, new paradigm of spatial self-identification by women, flâneur, feminine cultural milieu in a megalopolis.

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