apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]

La ville, la ciudad, la città… The city is not only feminine in linguistic terms, but is also usually connoted as female in literature and other media, appearing as a seductive woman whom male protagonists, such as the flâneur, attempt to conquer. From the perspective of gender studies, this special issue replaces these male views of the city with female ones in order to specifically examine the forms and functions of the metropolitan experiences of female narrators and protagonists in French and Spanish urban texts from literature, music and film. The contributions focus on different textual cities (Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Banlieue and Coca) and use them to illustrate new perspectives on the influence of gender structures on the design of narrative urban space. Dossier edited by Laura Wiemer