Gender and the City before Modernity (eBook)

Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on issues related to gender, agriculture and land use in classical antiquity. Gabriele Neher is Lecturer in Renaissance Art History at the University of Nottingham. She is also Reviews Editor for the journal Gender & History.

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1

LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER

1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and
Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20

GILLIAN RAMSEY

2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the
Aztec Household City 38

CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK

3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan
57

ROSS BALZARETTI

4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case
Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens
(c.520-400 BCE) 86

LISA C. NEVETT

5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens
107

JAMES DAVIDSON

6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in
Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125

EMMA LOOSLEY

7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Gender,
Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140

MONICA MERLIN

8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late
Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163

HELEN FOXHALL FORBES

9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and
Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195

KATE COOPER

10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient
Greek City 213

CLAIRE TAYLOR

11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early
Modern Venice 231

ALEXANDER COWAN

Index 249