Gender and the city before modernity / [electronic resource]
by Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele.
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BookPublisher: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9781118234440; 1118234448; 9781118234464; 1118234464; 9781118234457; 1118234456; 9781118234471; 1118234472.Uniform titles: Gender & history.Subject(s): To 1500 | Women -- History -- To 1500 | Women -- Social life and customs | City and town life -- History -- To 1500 | Sociology, Urban -- History -- To 1500 | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies | City and town life | Sociology, Urban | Women | Women -- Social life and customs | Electronic books | HistoryOnline resources: Wiley Online Library "Originally published as Volume 23, Issue 3 of Gender & History."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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