ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Economy, Circulations and Exchanges
chapter 3|14 pages
Toleration, Liberty and Privileges
chapter 5|13 pages
Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
part II|77 pages
Space, Place and Environment
chapter 8|13 pages
Mapping the Spaces of Seduction
chapter 9|14 pages
Painting the Town
part III|80 pages
Civic Identity and Political Culture
chapter 15|14 pages
‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’
chapter 17|12 pages
Negotiating Respectable Citizenship
chapter 18|12 pages
Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class?
part IV|76 pages
Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings
chapter 20|12 pages
The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion
chapter 21|12 pages
Caring and Healing
chapter 22|13 pages
Architectural Language and Mistranslations
chapter 23|13 pages
Shoes and the City
part V|76 pages
Intimacy and Emotion
chapter 25|11 pages
Shaping London Merchant Identities
chapter 26|13 pages
Love Thy Neighbour?
chapter 30|12 pages
Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation!
part VI|79 pages
The Colonial Town