Gendering Spaces in European Towns, 1500-1914

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. This volume provides contextualized case studies that explore how contemporary urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over an important period of modernization.

About the author

Elaine Chalus is Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool.

Marjo Kaartinen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

Summary

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. This volume provides contextualized case studies that explore how contemporary urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over an important period of modernization.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elaine Chalus (Editor), Marjo Kaartinen (Editor), Chalus Elaine (Editor)
• Authors: Elaine (University of Liverpool Chalus, Elaine Kaartinen Chalus
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780367670993
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67099-3
• Pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Subjects: Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Industrialisation and industrial history, urban social history, class and gender relations, spatial gender analysis, urban built environment studies, modernization Europe, historical urban sociology, gendered urban modernization case studies