The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience Routledge History Handbooks Series

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural,spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European,North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting newlight on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe.

Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment.

Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, this volume analyses the individual dynamics of each case study while also examining the complex relationships and exchanges between urban cultures. It is a valuable resource for all researchers and students interested in gender, urban history and their intersection and interaction throughout the past five centuries.

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 Pluskota

PART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction

Nina Javette Koefoed

13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York

Sarah Rees Jones

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

Eleonora Canepari

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

My Hellsing

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

Jane Rendall

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

Niels Nyegaard

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

Åsa Karlsson Sjögren

PART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction

Marjo Kaartinen

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

Renata Ago

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

Ana Marinković

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

Anne Carol

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

Despina Stratigakos

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

Kimberly Alexander

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

Teija Försti

PART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction

Katie Barclay

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

Merridee L. Bailey

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

Susan Broomhall

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

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

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

Heikki Lempa

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

Mark D. Steinberg

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

Jeff Meek

PART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction

Nigel Worden

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

Leo J. Garofalo

32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company Town

Jean Gelman Taylor

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

Clare A. Lyons

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

Mary Hancock

35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns

Penny Russell

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

Vivian Bickford-Smith

Deborah Simonton is associate professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark and author of Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identityfrom 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.