Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

525 Pages·2017·12.373 MB·English

by  Deborah Simonton

The RouTledge hisToRy
handbook of gendeR and
The uRban expeRience
Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and
the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural,
spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European,
North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new
light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe.
Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture,
emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field.
It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and
tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understand-
ing of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment.
Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, this volume analyses the individual dynamics of
each case study while also examining the complex relationships and exchanges between urban
cultures. It is a valuable resource for all researchers and students interested in gender, urban his-
tory and their intersection and interaction throughout the past five centuries.
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.
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The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience
Edited by Deborah Simonton
The RouTledge
hisToRy handbook
of gendeR and The uRban
expeRience
Edited by
Deborah Simonton
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anne MonTenach, elaine chalus, nina JaVeTTe koefoed
MaRJo kaaRTinen, kaTie baRclay, nigel WoRden
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conTenTs
List of Figures xii
List of Tables xiv
Notes on Contributors xv
Preface xxiv
Acknowledgements xxvi
Gender and the Urban Experience – Introduction 1
Part I
Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction 7
Anne Montenach
1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters 11
Anna Bellavitis
2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns 21
Cathryn Spence
3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in
Eighteenth-Century European Towns 33
Deborah Simonton
4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution 47
Hannah Barker
5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender Approach 58
Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller
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Contents
6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 71
Manuela Martini
Part II
Space, Place and Environment – Introduction 85
Elaine Chalus
7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England 91
Amanda Flather
8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction – Morality, Gender and the City in
Early Nineteenth-Century Britain 103
Katie Barclay
9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides,
London and the Thames, a Case Study 116
Kemille S. Moore
10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of
Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa 130
Rebecca M. Bender
11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices
in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku 142
Riitta Laitinen
12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth
to Nineteenth Centuries 153
Sanne Muurling and Marion Pluskota
Part III
Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction 165
Nina Javette Koefoed
13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York 169
Sarah Rees Jones
14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and
Seventeenth-Century Italian Towns 182
Eleonora Canepari
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Contents
15 ‘We Had a Row on the P olitics of the Day’ – Gender and Political
Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 195
My Hellsing
16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 209
Jane Rendall
17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation
Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen 221
Niels Nyegaard
18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women
in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 233
Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Part IV
Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction 245
Marjo Kaartinen
19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome 249
Renata Ago
20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive
Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian Confraternity 259
Ana Marinković
21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality
in Nineteenth-Century French Cities 271
Anne Carol
22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative
Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces 283
Despina Stratigakos
23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and Their Sphere of Influence in
Early America, 1740–1789 296
Kimberly Alexander
24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki,
1900–1930 309
Teija Försti
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