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Titolo |
Gender and the city before modernity / / edited by Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher |
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Chichester [England] ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-23445-6 |
1-280-58754-7 |
9786613617378 |
1-118-23447-2 |
1-118-23444-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - History - To 1500 |
Women - Social life and customs |
City and town life - History - To 1500 |
Sociology, Urban - History - To 1500 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Originally published as Volume 23, Issue 3 of Gender & History." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Greek City; 11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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