Gender in the European Town: Ancien Regime to the Modern

ISBN-13: 9780415684439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Deborah Simonton

Opis

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Absolutism and Enlightenment: Urban Belonging  2. Urban Economies  3. Civic identity and Governance  4. Places and Spaces  5. Bourgeois Century: Shifting Parameters, Shifting Meanings  6. The Transformative Urban Economy  7. Politics and Civic identity  8. Shaping Towns  9. Streets, Sociability and Consuming the Town  10. Re-imaging the City in the Twentieth Century  11. Civic Impulses  12. Work in the modern town  13. Living in Towns  14. Navigating Urban spaces  15. Coda: Imagining the Town, Past and Present

O autorze

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Visiting Professor in Cultural History, University of Turku, author of A History of European Women’s Work and Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook, and General Editor of Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience.