Gender and the city before modernity / edited by Lin Foxhall and Gabriele Neher.
Material type: TextSeries: Gender & history (Unnumbered)Publication details: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781118234440
- 1118234448
- 9781118234464
- 1118234464
- 9781118234457
- 1118234456
- 9781118234471
- 1118234472
- Gender & history.
- 305.4 23
- HQ1127
"Originally published as Volume 23, Issue 3 of Gender & History."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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