Gender and the city before modernity / edited by Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foxhall, Lin.

Neher, Gabriele.

Series:

Gender & history (Unnumbered)

Gender and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 1500.

Women.

Women--Social life and customs.

City and town life--History--To 1500.

City and town life.

Sociology, Urban--History--To 1500.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester [England] ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban spaceFeatures a wide geographical and methodological rangeIncludes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Contents:

Gender and the City before Modernity; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities; 2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City; 3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan; 4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520-400 BCE); 5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens

6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter; 8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester; 9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage; 10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City; 11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice; Index

Notes:

"Originally published as Volume 23, Issue 3 of Gender & History."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613617378

9781118234457

1118234456

9781280587542

1280587547

9781118234471

1118234472

9781118234440

1118234448

OCLC:

774024197