Gender and the City before Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118234457
• Artikelnr.: 38240467

Autorenporträt

Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on issues related to gender, agriculture and land use in classical antiquity. Gabriele Neher is Lecturer in Renaissance Art History at the University of Nottingham. She is also Reviews Editor for the journal Gender & History.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER 1
The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in
Hellenistic Civic Communities 20 GILLIAN RAMSEY 2 'A Remarkably Patterned
Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City 38 CAROLINE DODDS
PENNOCK 3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan 57 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) 86
LISA C. NEVETT 5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens
107 JAMES DAVIDSON 6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social
Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125 EMMA LOOSLEY 7 The Nanjing
Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late
Ming Pleasure Quarter 140 MONICA MERLIN 8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and
Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163 HELEN FOXHALL FORBES 9 A
Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison
Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195 KATE COOPER 10 Women's Social Networks
and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City 213 CLAIRE TAYLOR 11 Seeing
is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice 231
ALEXANDER COWAN Index 249