Foxhall / Neher Gender and the City before Modernity

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23444-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Gender and History Special Issues

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series ofmulti-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to therole of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, andearly modern worlds.
* Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings thatreveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality,and urban space
* Features a wide geographical and methodological range
* Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foxhall, Lin

Neher, Gabriele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER
1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention andPatronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20
GILLIAN RAMSEY
2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in theAztec Household City 38
CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK
3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan57
ROSS BALZARETTI
4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: CaseStudies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens(c.520-400 BCE) 86
LISA C. NEVETT
5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens107
JAMES DAVIDSON
6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction inSeventeenth-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 LateAnglo-Saxon Winchester 163
HELEN FOXHALL FORBES
9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority andResistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195
KATE COOPER
10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the AncientGreek City 213
CLAIRE TAYLOR
11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in EarlyModern Venice 231
ALEXANDER COWAN
Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and Historyat the University of Leicester. She has written extensively onissues related to gender, agriculture and land use in classicalantiquity.
Gabriele Neher is Lecturer in Renaissance Art History atthe University of Nottingham. She is also Reviews Editor for thejournal Gender & History.