The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Notes
1 Pierce Egan, Life in London (London: Sherwood,
Neely, and Jones, 1821).
2 Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One,
trans. Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 184.
3 This spatial story is for Deborah Miller,
whose insights in our late-night storytelling sessions
always bring me out of, and back to, myself.
4 Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa,”
trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen in New
French Feminisms: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Marks
and Isabelle de Courtivron Marks (London: Harvester,
1981), p. 254.
5 See Michel de Certeau, “Spatial Stories,” in
The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven F. Rendall
(Berkeley: University of California Press,
1984), pp. 115–122.
6 Aldo Carotenuto, Eros and Pathos: Shades of
Love and Suffering, trans. Charles Nopar (Toronto:
Inner City Books, 1989), p. 27.
7 Aidan Andrew Dunn, Vale Royal (Uppingham:
Goldmark, 1995), p. 9.
8 Triun T. Minh-Ha, When the Moon Waxes
Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics
(London: Routledge, 1991), p. 229.
9 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet,
trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Vintage,
1986), p. 55.
10 Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs:
Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in
the 1980s” (1985), in Feminism/Postmodernism,
ed. Linda Nicholson (London: Routledge, 1990),
pp. 202–203.
11 Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will
Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1979), in
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and
Journals (London: Pandora, 1996), p. 160.
12 In her second diary, Anais Nin wrote of
Fez that the image of the interior of the city
was an image of her inner self, quoted in Barbara
Black Koltuv, Weaving Woman: Essays in Feminine
Psychology from the Notebooks of a Jungian
Analyst (York Beach, Me.: Nicolas-Hays, 1990),
p. 7.
A Spatial Story of Exchange
13 Victor Burgin, Some Cities (London: Reaktion
Books, 1996), p. 7.
14 Carotenuto, Eros and Pathos, p. 17.
15 Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women:
Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex” (1975),
in Feminism and History, ed. Joan W. Scott (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 118.
16 Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market,” in
This Sex Which Is Not One, pp. 170–191; this essay
is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text.
17 Sylvie Germain, The Weeping Woman on the
Streets of Prague, trans. Judith Landry (Sawtree,
Cambs.: Dedalus, 1993), p. 27.
18 Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea, trans.
Betsy Wing (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1991), p. 7.
19 I am grateful to Lynda Nead, who pointed
me in the direction of the ramble.
20 Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., s.vv. “ramble,”
“rambling.”
21 Eric Partridge, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
English (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1984), s.v. “ramble.”
22 “Rambler in London,” The Rambler 1, no. 1
(1824).
23 See, for example, A Ramble through London
(1738); The Country Spy or a Ramble through London
(1750); The Modern Complete London Spy
(1760); and A Sunday Ramble (1774).
24 These texts, originally published monthly
and then in book form, include Pierce Egan, Life
in London (London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,
1821); Jonathan Badcock, Real Life in London
(London: Jones, 1822); William Heath, Fashion
and Folly: The Bucks Pilgrimage (London: William
Sams, 1822); and B. Blackmantle, The English
Spy, (London: Sherwood, Jones, 1825).
25 See for example, Covent Garden Magazine
(London: G. Allen, 1773); Harris’s List of Covent
Garden Ladies (London: H. Ranger, 1788); and
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (London: H.
Ranger, 1793).
26 The monthly periodicals include The Rambler’s
Magazine (London: R. Randall, 1783–
1789); Ranger’s Magazine (London: J. Sudbury,