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 understanding 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 history and their intersection and interaction throughout the past five centuries.
Edited by:
Deborah Simonton
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 997g
ISBN: 9781138815940
ISBN 10: 1138815942
Series: Routledge History Handbooks
Pages: 524
Publication Date: 14 February 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Gender and the Urban Experience – Introduction PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction Anne Montenach 1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters Anna Bellavitis 2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns Cathryn Spence 3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns Deborah Simonton 4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution Hannah Barker 5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender Approach Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller 6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuela Martini PART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction Elaine Chalus 7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England Amanda Flather 8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Katie Barclay 9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study Kemille S. Moore 10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa Rebecca M. Bender 11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku Riitta Laitinen 12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Sanne Muurling and Marion Pluskota PART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction Nina Javette Koefoed 13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York Sarah Rees Jones 14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian Towns Eleonora Canepari 15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 My Hellsing 16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 Jane Rendall 17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen Niels Nyegaard 18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 Åsa Karlsson Sjögren PART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction Marjo Kaartinen 19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome Renata Ago 20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian Confraternity Ana Marinković 21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities Anne Carol 22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces Despina Stratigakos 23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789 Kimberly Alexander 24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930 Teija Försti PART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction Katie Barclay 25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery Merridee L. Bailey 26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall 27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City Sonya Lipsett-Rivera 28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns Heikki Lempa 29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair Mark D. Steinberg 30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century Scotland Jeff Meek PART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction Nigel Worden 31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800 Leo J. Garofalo 32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company Town Jean Gelman Taylor 33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta Clare A. Lyons 34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India Mary Hancock 35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns Penny Russell 36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Vivian Bickford-Smith
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.
Reviews for The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience
'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.' Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'Simonton ... presents an exciting body of work that simultaneously offers broad overviews and detailed microa-studies.' Jennifer Aston, The Economic History Review 'Overall, the Handbook is a vast and empirically rich collection of essays, which is a valuable resource for researchers, and will undoubtedly be informative for both scholarship and teaching. Students interested in gender, urban history and their relationship will also find much here, and will particularly benefit from the helpful advice for further reading included at the end of the book. The collection makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the gendering of urban experiences, spaces, and places, and what ultimately resonates throughout the volume is the exciting range and variety of current work on gender in an urban context.' Laura Harrison, Women's History Review
