ABSTRACT
The pictorial tropes of the modern city since the eighteenth century have captured, reiterated and reinforced a persistent message of denial to all people other than the strongest and most ruthless of heterosexual men. It was not just male, but a cruel, destructive and ruthless tormentor. The chapters in this section build on an extensive body of scholarship like that of Sparke, to examine the city through re-imagining urban narratives; informed by a broad, inclusive and non-binary reflection on the history of civic space. Practically, what she envisioned was the simultaneous redesign of the persistent feminine and masculine imaginaries of the private home and public infrastructure to overcome gender, class, racial, and age discrimination. Lloyd's chapter revisits Hayden's vision of the non-sexist city on the fortieth anniversary of the essay's publication. In this chapter, Berry examines the representation of women in the city through fashion and iconic fashion media from the early twentieth century, as both spectacle and self-apprehended image.
