Les femmes et les milieux urbains/Women and Urban Environments
The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space, an ordered, rational, manmade expression, both literal and symbolic, of men’s intellectual and spiritual projects and ideals. In contrast, rural domains, metaphorical ?wild zones’, are associated with the natural, the non-rational, the feminine. This gendered perception of the city finds further reinforcement in the binary opposition of culture/nature. A brief consideration of literary and filmic texts dealing with representations of the city brings to mind a host of male writers and directors ranging...
