Umfang:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118234440
Serie:
Gender and history v.12
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- 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 Isfahan -- 7 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.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781118234433
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118234433
Sprache:
Englisch
