A review by jerrylwei
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin

2.0

I couldn't finish this book. The passages are disjointed; the history is at times interesting, at times too shallow. Her discussion of Paris and women in it is most compelling. Her discussions of French protest culture were illuminating. Avoid the Japan chapters.

Her writing is at times cloying, at times faux-academic, but all too often censorious. At one point, she uses a misleadingly suburban euphemism for rape.