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 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.

List of contents

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 Marinkovic

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

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'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 microâ-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

Report

'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 

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Simonton, Deborah (University of Southern Denmark Simonton, Deborah (University of Southern Denmark) Simonton
• Assisted by: Deborah Simonton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138815940
• ISBN: 978-1-138-81594-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Routledge History Handbooks; Routledge History Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Urban communities