ISBN:
9781118234440
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9781118234457
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9781118234464
,
1118234448
,
1118234464
,
1118234456
,
9781118234440
,
9781118234464
,
9781118234457
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender and History Special Issues
Uniform Title:
Gender & history.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and the city before modernity
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Women History To 1500
;
Women Social life and customs
;
City and town life History To 1500
;
Urban sociology History To 1500
Abstract:
Gender and the City before Modernitypresents 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
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of 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;
Note:
"Originally published as Volume 23, Issue 3 of Gender & History
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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