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The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
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The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
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| Abstract |
Acquiring much of her primary research from articles and photos in the Montreal Star, the author notes that the visual landscape of urban life in 1960s Montreal helped to give rise to a new practice of gazing at women, which complicates many of the taken-for-granted notions about the place of women in cities. Through the interrelated systems of visual representation — fashion, newspaper journalism, architecture, and the city itself — the author contends that “girl watching” emerges as a practice intimately bound to the space of the city and the discourses of social relations embedded within it. In the process of normalizing and “naturalizing” the appearance of women in city space, she argues for the possibility that these spaces were subsequently opened up for other uses by women.
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Space and Culture
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Vol. 10
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no. 3
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349-368
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2007
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Wallace, Aurora. “The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal.” Space and Culture Vol. 10, no. 3 (2007): 349–368.
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