The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

ISBN-13: 9780367581367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 496 str.

Deborah Simonton

Opis

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, this volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the 14th to the 20th century. Organised into six parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, it explores topics rangi

O autorze

Deborah Simonton is associate professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark and author of Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity from 1700 (2011) and a co-editor of Female Agency in the European Town (2013, with Anne Montenach) and Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 (2014, with Marjo Kaartinen and Anne Montenach). She leads the international network Gender in the European Town.