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

This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-political characteristics such as wealth, status, age and life-stage as well as with individual choices, in the very different world of classical antiquity, is fascinating in its own right. But later perceptions of ancient literature and art have profoundly influenced the development of gendered ideologies and hierarchies in the West, and influenced the study of gender itself. Questioning how best to...

Up-to-date, theoretically informed historical survey of the practices and performance of gender in ancient Greece and Rome.