Setting: Dublin 1904/1922

Duffy, Enda

doi:10.1017/cco9781139696425.009

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“…For example, Wolff ( 2006 ) writes about the recognition of the role of women in public spaces has been belated, stressing the female status of object of men's gaze, and Pollock ( 1992 ) argues the absence of women precisely starting from the gaze of the flâneur who observes the city and the women was a form of possession, of appropriation through sight, and argues that there could not have been a female correspondent of that look. Duffy ( 1994 ), while not completely excluding the presence of this figure, believes that the essential conditions of anonymity in which the flâneur moves invisible in the crowd, were certainly denied to women, always very much visible (Hallberg, 2002 ; Nuvolati, 2006 , 2013 , 2014 ).…”

Section: The Denied Citymentioning

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Women and cities. The conquest of urban space

Carrera

Castellaneta

2023

Front. Sociol.

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In the city of the Nineteenth-century, transformed by the values of the French revolution and by the modernity, women did not have yet full citizenship. The public space was still strongly a male space and women, still with a weak public subjectivity, remained the object of the male gaze. Women have begun a process of conquering urban space by claiming their right to the city, through their physical presence in the city itself. Through physical space, women have claimed their full symbolic citizenship. The project of an inclusive city takes shape from the public demands of women who, as Annie Hockshild wrote, gave birth to the most important revolution of the 20th century. However it is a stalled revolution that still today requires a legislative protection for the project of the substantial equality, which is still not fully achieved. In addition to the various national legislations, international legislation also recognizes the central objective of guaranteeing women's right to full citizenship. In the second part of the article, the focus is precisely on the normative content of this legislation and in particular on the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030.

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