Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

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

• Gender and the Urban Experience – Introduction PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction Anne Montenach1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters Anna Bellavitis2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns Cathryn Spence3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns Deborah Simonton4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution Hannah Barker5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender ApproachMontserrat Carbonell-Esteller6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuela MartiniPART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction Elaine Chalus7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England Amanda Flather8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City inEarly Nineteenth-Century Britain Katie Barclay9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study Kemille S. Moore10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa Rebecca M. Bender11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku Riitta Laitinen12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Sanne Muurling and Marion PluskotPART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction Nina Javette Koefoed13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York Sarah Rees Jones14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian TownsEleonora Canepari15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 My Hellsing16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 Jane Rendall17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen Niels Nyegaard18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 Åsa Karlsson SjögrenPART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction Marjo Kaartinen19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome Renata Ago20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian ConfraternityAna Marinković21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities Anne Carol22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces Despina Stratigakos23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789 Kimberly Alexander24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930 Teija FörstiPART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction Katie Barclay25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery Merridee L. Bailey26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico CitySonya Lipsett-Rivera28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns Heikki Lempa29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair Mark D. Steinberg30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century ScotlandJeff MeekPART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction Nigel Worden31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800 Leo J. Garofalo32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company TownJean Gelman Taylor33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta Clare A. Lyons34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India Mary Hancock35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns Penny Russell36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Vivian Bickford-Smith