Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (Berkeley: University of California Press , 1992).
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It is hard not to be reminded here of my own analysis of seeing and being seen on the streets of 1860s New York City, where an image of men on display in a club's bow window is used to ridicule them (and their political leanings) by presenting them as dandies, and as being the object of women's gazes. See “ `Those Gorgeous Incongruities': Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88 (1998): 209-26.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Scholastic Books, 1813/1962), 182.
