Women's Experience in the City

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This paper examines the life of women in cities by analyzing two books -"The Sphinx in the City" and "Women in Cities", which explore this phenomenon in two very different ways. The first book by Wilson takes an historical perspective of women's experience in cities, while the second focuses on recent research conducted surrounding women's lives in British cities. This paper gives a short review of each, highlighting the major themes found in each, and then begins to integrate the historical with the present attitudes and problems that women in cities can face.

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"Women's experiences of the city, and their lives within them, are often the overlooked element when researching and writing about life in the modern urban environment. For my review and comparison of two books relevant to urban psychology, I choose to look at the way women have experienced the city, and how their lives are impacted by the area of their residence."

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