Gender and the city before modernity /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Foxhall, Lin, Neher, Gabriele
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
• Σειρά: Gender & history (Unnumbered)
• Θέματα: To 1500; Women > History > To 1500.; Women > Social life and customs.; City and town life > History > To 1500.; Sociology, Urban > History > To 1500.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.; City and town life.; Sociology, Urban.; Women.; Electronic books.; History.

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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• 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.