Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-181) and index.
Gender and the haunting of cities (or, the retirement of the flâneur) / Janet Wolff -- Women in public : the display of femininity in the parks of Paris / Greg M. Thomas -- Dusting the surface, or the bourgeoise, the veil, and Haussmann's Paris / Marni Kessler -- Disorienting Orient : Duret and Guimet, anxious flâneurs in Asia / Ting Chang -- Transcrypts : some notes between pricks / Simon Leung -- Not the flâneur again : reading magazines and living the metropolis around 1880 / Tom Gretton -- The flâneuse in French fin-de-siècle posters : advertising images of modern women in Paris / Ruth E. Iskin -- Why the Impressionists never painted the department store / Aruna D'Souza -- City of strangers / Tom McDonough -- The contemporary flâneuse / Helen Scalway