Women, the city and modernity. Can there be a "flâneuse", and what form might she take? This is the central question of this book, an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity. Contents: Introduction: Gendered cartographies of viewing; 1. Mythologies of modernity; 2. The woman of the crowd; 4. On the margins of the city; 5. The cosmopolitan and the Rag-Picker in expatriate; 6. Wandering the London Wasteland; 7. Epilogue: Re- envisioning the urban walker.