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 INDICE: Notes on ContributorsGender and the City before Modernity: Introduction (Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher)1. The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities (Gillian Ramsey)2.€˜A Remarkably Patterned Life€™: Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City (Caroline Dodds Pennock)3. Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan (Ross Balzaretti)4. Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520-400 BCE)(Lisa C. Nevett)5. Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens(James Davidson)6. Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan (Emma Loosley)7. The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter (Monica Merlin)8. Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester (Helen Foxhall Forbes)9. A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage (KateCooper)10. Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient GreekCity (Claire Taylor)11. Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice (Alexander Cowan)Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-23443-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 04/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés