Gender and the City before Modernity

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space Features a wide geographical and methodological range Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series ofmulti-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to therole of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, andearly modern worlds.* Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings thatreveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporalityand urban space* Features a wide geographical and methodological range* Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention andPatronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20GILLIAN RAMSEY2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in theAztec Household City 38CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan57ROSS BALZARETTI4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: CaseStudies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens(c.520-400 BCE) 86LISA C. NEVETT5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens107JAMES DAVIDSON6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction inSeventeenth-Century Isfahan 125EMMA LOOSLEY7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): GenderSpace and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140MONICA MERLIN8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in LateAnglo-Saxon Winchester 163HELEN FOXHALL FORBES9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority andResistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195KATE COOPER10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the AncientGreek City 213CLAIRE TAYLOR11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in EarlyModern Venice 231ALEXANDER COWANIndex 249