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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester [England] ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4
• Soggetto topico: Women - History - To 1500; Women - Social life and customs; City and town life - History - To 1500; Sociology, Urban - History - To 1500
• Altri autori: FoxhallLin NeherGabriele
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and the city before modernity
• ISBN: 1-118-23445-6; 1-280-58754-7; 9786613617378; 1-118-23447-2; 1-118-23444-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824608203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender & history (Unnumbered)