- 394 pages
- English
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About This Book
Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.
As places which fostered and disseminated key social, economic, political and cultural developments, towns were central to the creation of gendered identities and the transmission of ideas across local, national and transnational boundaries. From 1650 to 2000, towns grew rapidly and responded to the needs for new infrastructures, physical reconfiguration and ideas of citizenship. Gender relations vary over space and time and are continually altering; such variation underlines the need for a thorough non- or even anti-essentialism. Drawing primarily on three themes of economy, civic identity and uses of space, the volume shows that urban development, and responses to it, is not gender neutral and thus argues for the fundamental importance of a gendered perspective.
Gender in the European Town is a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in urban history and its interaction with gender from 1650 to the present.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Plans
- List of Images
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Coda: Imagining the Town, Past and Present
- Selected Bibliography
- Index