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
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER
1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20
GILLIAN RAMSEY
2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City 38
CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK
3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan 57
ROSS BALZARETTI
4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520–400 BCE) 86
LISA C. NEVETT
5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens 107
JAMES DAVIDSON
6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-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 Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163
HELEN FOXHALL FORBES
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