Gendering Spaces in European Towns, 1500-1914 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Chalus, Elaine; Kaartinen, Marjo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317976493
• Artikelnr.: 55710977

Autorenporträt

Elaine Chalus is Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool. Marjo Kaartinen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Conceived, Constructed, and Contested Spaces: Gender and European Towns
- Introduction Part I: Conceived and Constructed Spaces 2. Aristocratic
Townhouse as Urban Space: The Fersen Palace in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm
3. "A Busy Day with Me, or at Least with My Feet & My Stockings": Walking
for Health and the Female Pedestrian's Spaces in Eighteenth-Century British
Towns 4. "For the Gentlemen of the Town to Walk on by Way of Exchange":
Gender, Space and Commerce in the Eighteenth-Century Town 5. Spaces of
Sociability in Fashionable Society: Brighton and Nice, c.1825-35 6.
Marriage Markets for Elite Women: Imperial St Petersburg and Helsinki 7.
The City of Men: Gender, Space and Working-Class Domesticity in
Late-Imperial Moscow Part II: Contested Spaces 8. "Uncontrolled Crossings":
Gender and Illicit Economic Territories in Eighteenth-Century French Towns
9. Contentious Spaces: Urban Arenas for Violent Crowds in Pre-Industrial
Stockholm, c.1700-1850 10. Absent Men and Tainted Houses: Gender, Place and
Self in Stockholm in 1719 11. Behind Thin Walls: Contested Spaces and
Spheres of Authority in Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen 12. Wives with
Knives and Lovers: Murder and Marital Households in Eighteenth-Century
London and Paris 13. Pride and Resentment: French Émigrés and Republicans
in the Streets of Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen