Gender and the city before modernity /
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 i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; Malden, MA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2012.
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| Series: | Gender & history (Unnumbered)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
