Mujeres haciendo ciudad: Flâneuses y Las Sinsombrero

Abstract

Women Making City: Flâneuses and Las Sinsombrero

This article follows the steps of flâneuses who understood how to confront the adversities of an urban public space designed primarily for men. Through their presence on the streets and the creative use of their bodies in space, these women applied their strategies to violate the social norms of the day. These women were known as Las Sinsombrero (the hatless).

The women’s experiences and the restrictions they faced during their walks through the city are recorded in literary works, biographies, memoirs and photographic documents by women writers and artists. Invisibilized women, who instead of conforming to the norm and remaining within the family and private space, broke out into a public space designed by and for men; women who used their time to win space; women who made the city.