Bess Hayes

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Robert E. McFarland |Brigham Young |Bess Hayes

KeywordsJohanna M. Lankau, Dresdner Spaziergänge, Dresden Walks, female authorDepartmentGerman and RussianAbstractIn nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, it was ideologically inappropriate for women to walk unaccompanied through the city. Because of these gendered strictures, women’s narratives of city walks are extremely rare. Johanna M. Lankau’s Dresdner Spaziergänge (“Dresden Walks”) is one of these rare exceptions.