Gender and the City before Modernity

Foxhall , Lin 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 04월 17일 출간

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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 spaceFeatures a wide geographical and methodological rangeIncludes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

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Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20GILLIAN RAMSEY2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City 38CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan 57ROSS BALZARETTI4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520&n-400 BCE) 86LISA C. NEVETT5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens 107JAMES DAVIDSON6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125EMMA LOOSLEY7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548&n-1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140MONICA MERLIN8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163HELEN FOXHALL FORBES9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195KATE COOPER10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City 213CLAIRE TAYLOR11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice 231ALEXANDER COWANIndex 249

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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 journalGender History.

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