%0 Journal Article
%T A Hotel of Her Own: Building by and for the New Woman, 1900
%A Nikki Mandell
%J Journal of Urban History
%@ 1552-6771
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0096144218762631
%X This article examines the little-known phenomenon of apartment hotels built for single middle- and upper-class women during the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on New York City, where the first and most influential of these residences opened, this study argues that upscale womenĄŻs apartment hotels severed the Victorian equivalency between home and family, and reconfigured home as a site of womenĄŻs independence and self-fulfillment. They also helped redefine womenĄŻs economic role; rather than engaging elite women as consumers of household goods, apartment hotels engaged them as consumers of housing and as real-estate developers. As womenĄŻs apartment hotels moved from amusing experiment to markers of twentieth-century modernity, they etched the New WomanĄŻs individuality, ambitions, sexuality, and civic engagement into the urban landscape
%K gender
%K apartment
%K urban culture
%K New York
%K real-estate development
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218762631