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.
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 space
- Features a wide geographical and methodological range
- Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity
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| Introduction |
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1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities |
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2 `A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City |
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3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan |
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4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520--400 BCE) |
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5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens |
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6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan |
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7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548--1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter |
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8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester |
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9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage |
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10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City |
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11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice |
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Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on issues related to gender, agriculture and land use in classical antiquity.
Gabriele Neher is Lecturer in Renaissance Art History at the University of Nottingham. She is also Reviews Editor for the journal Gender & History.
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