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| Title: |
Fair Ladies: The place of women antique dealers in a post-industrial Italian city |
| Author: |
Guano, Emanuela |
| Appeared in: |
Gender, place and culture |
| Paging: | Volume 13 (2006) nr. 2 pages 105-122 |
| Year: |
2006-04 |
| Contents: |
After the collapse of its state-subsidized industries, Genoa is taking up a new role as a 'city of culture' capable of attracting tourists and high-tech companies alike. Part of the process of urban renovation entails the transformation of Genoa's streets and piazzas into sites for the consumption of culture. This happens, among other ways, through a proliferation of antique fairs that give chronically under- and unemployed middle-class women an opportunity for self-employment. This essay is an ethnographic exploration of how middle-class women antique dealers draw on their gendered and classed skills—especially their aesthetic sensibility and their humanistic cultural capital—to stake out a place for themselves in an urban sphere molded by a neoliberal economy of culture. Mujeres de las ferias: el lugar de las negociantes de antiguedades en una ciudad post-industrial italiana Despues del fracaso de sus industrias subvencionadas por el Estado, Genova se trata un nuevo papel como la 'ciudad de cultura' capaz de atraer turistas y empresas de tecnologia avanzada. Parte del proceso de renovacion urbana implica la transformacion de las calles y las plazas de Genova a sitios para el consumo de cultura. Se ocurre, entre otras formas, a traves de una proliferacion de ferias de antiguedades que da a las constantemente sub- y desempleadas mujeres de la clase media una oportunidad para volverse autonoma. Este articulo es una exploracion etnografica de como las negociantes de antiguedades de la clase media utilizan sus experiencias de genero y clase—especialmente sus sensibilidad estetica y sus capital cultural humanistico—para definir un lugar para si mismas en una esfera urbana formada de una economia neoliberal de la cultura. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
Details for article 43 of 104 found articles
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