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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141252703321

Titolo

Gender and the city before modernity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-118-23445-6

1-280-58754-7

9786613617378

1-118-23447-2

1-118-23444-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Gender and history

Altri autori (Persone)

FoxhallLin

NeherGabriele

Disciplina

305.4

Soggetti

Women - History - To 1500

Women - Social life and customs

City and town life - History - To 1500

Sociology, Urban - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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