Gender in Urban Europe Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship, 1750-1900 [Hardcover]

This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces, outlining how a particular activity was constituted as political and exploring how this contributed to a gendered concept of citizenship. The comparative and transnational perspectives revealed through combining such work contributes to establishing new knowledge about the relationship between gender, citizenship and the development of the modern town in Northern Europe.

Preface  Deborah Simonton  Introduction  Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed and ?sa Karlsson Sj?gren  Section I: Gendered Use of Public Space in the Development of Citizenship  Introduction to Section I  Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed and ?sa Karlsson Sj?gren  1.  To Merit the Countenance of the Magistrates : Gender and Civic Identity in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen  Deborah Leigh Simonton  2. Feeling Civic: Emotions, Gender and Civic Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen  Camilla Schjerning  3. Defending Citizenship, Defining Citizenship: Rumours, Pamphleteering and the General Public in the Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen  Ulrik Langen  4. Manly Magistrates and Citizenship in an Irish Town: Carlow, 1820-1840  Katie Barclay  Section II: Political Conflicts, Unruly Political Behavior and Gendered Citizenship  Introduction to Section II  Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed and ?sa Karlsson Sj?gren  5. The Burcot Bear: Gender, Power and Belonging in the Wells Election of 1765  Elaine Chalus  6. Food Riots in NineteenlÃ*