Gender and the City before Modernity

Copyright © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Gender and the City before Modernity

Editor(s): Lin Foxhall, Gabriele Neher

Published Online: 13 APR 2012 05:49AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781118234433

Online ISBN: 9781118234471

DOI: 10.1002/9781118234471

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–x)

    2. Introduction (pages 1–19)

      Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher

    3. Chapter 1

      The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities (pages 20–37)

      Gillian Ramsey

    4. Chapter 2

      ‘A Remarkably Patterned Life’: Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City (pages 38–56)

      Caroline Dodds Pennock

    5. Chapter 3

      Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan (pages 57–85)

      Ross Balzaretti

    6. Chapter 4

      Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520–400 BCE) (pages 86–106)

      Lisa C. Nevett

    7. Chapter 5

      Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens (pages 107–124)

      James Davidson

    8. Chapter 6

      Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan (pages 125–139)

      Emma Loosley

    9. Chapter 7

      The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter (pages 140–162)

      Monica Merlin

    10. Chapter 8

      Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester (pages 163–194)

      Helen Foxhall Forbes

    11. Chapter 9

      A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage (pages 195–212)

      Kate Cooper

    12. Chapter 10

      Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City (pages 213–230)

      Claire Taylor

    13. Chapter 11

      Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice (pages 231–248)

      Alexander Cowan

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      Index (pages 249–256)

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