The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

Gender and the Urban Experience – Introduction

PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction

Anne Montenach

1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters

Anna Bellavitis

2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns

Cathryn Spence

3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns

Deborah Simonton

4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution

Hannah Barker

5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender Approach

Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller

6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Manuela Martini

PART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction

Elaine Chalus

7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England

Amanda Flather

8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City in

Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Katie Barclay

9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study

Kemille S. Moore

10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa

Rebecca M. Bender

11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku

Riitta Laitinen

12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Sanne Muurling and Marion Pluskot

PART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction

13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York

14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian Towns

15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800

16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830

17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen

18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920

19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome

20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian Confraternity

21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities

22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces

23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789

24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930

25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery

26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France

27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City

28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns

29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair

30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century Scotland

31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800

32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company Town

33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta

34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India

35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns

36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Vivian Bickford-Smith

Biography

Deborah Simonton is associate professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark and author of Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity from 1700 (2011) and a co-editor of Female Agency in the European Town (2013, with Anne Montenach) and Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 (2014, with Marjo Kaartinen and Anne Montenach). She leads the international network Gender in the European Town.

'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'

Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 

'Simonton ... presents an exciting body of work that simultaneously offers broad overviews and detailed microâ-studies.'

Jennifer Aston, The Economic History Review

'Overall, the Handbook is a vast and empirically rich collection of essays, which is a valuable resource for researchers, and will undoubtedly be informative for both scholarship and teaching. Students interested in gender, urban history and their relationship will also find much here, and will particularly benefit from the helpful advice for further reading included at the end of the book. The collection makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the gendering of urban experiences, spaces, and places, and what ultimately resonates throughout the volume is the exciting range and variety of current work on gender in an urban context.'

Laura Harrison, Women's History Review