The Sphinx in the City

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The Sphinx in the City is written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520078640 (ISBN 10) and 9780520078642 (ISBN 13).

"Adopting the guise of a flaneur, Wilson reconsiders the classical imagery of the city from the viewpoints of diverse groups of women: bourgeois wives, prostitutes, transvestite writers, and others. Its originality resides in its deft, consistently provocative interweaving of underground feminist discourses with the familiar, male-infected rhetorics of urban experience."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz