Gender in the European Town - Ancien Regime to the Modern

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Absolutism and Enlightenment: Urban Belonging 2. Urban Economies 3. Civic identity and Governance 4. Places and Spaces 5. Bourgeois Century: Shifting Parameters, Shifting Meanings 6. The Transformative Urban Economy 7. Politics and Civic identity 8. Shaping Towns 9. Streets, Sociability and Consuming the Town 10. Re-imaging the City in the Twentieth Century 11. Civic Impulses 12. Work in the modern town 13. Living in Towns 14. Navigating Urban spaces 15. Coda: Imagining the Town, Past and Present

About the author

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Visiting Professor in Cultural History, University of Turku, author of A History of European Women’s Work and Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook, and General Editor of Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience.

Summary

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Simonton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780415684439
• ISBN: 978-0-415-68443-9
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Economic history, Urban & municipal planning, Social and cultural history, Interdisciplinary studies, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Urban communities / city life