Lin Foxhall & Gabriele Neher 
Gender and the City before Modernity [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER
1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and
Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20
GILLIAN RAMSEY
2 ‘A Remarkably Patterned Life’: Domestic and Public in the
Aztec Household City 38
CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK
3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan
57
ROSS BALZARETTI
4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case
Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens
(c.520-400 BCE) 86
LISA C. NEVETT
5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens
107
JAMES DAVIDSON
6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in
Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125
EMMA LOOSLEY
7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Gender,
Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140
MONICA MERLIN
8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late
Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163
HELEN FOXHALL FORBES
9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and
Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195
KATE COOPER
10 Women’s Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient
Greek City 213
CLAIRE TAYLOR
11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early
Modern Venice 231
ALEXANDER COWAN
Index 249

Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History
at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on
issues related to gender, agriculture and land use in classical
antiquity.
Gabriele Neher is Lecturer in Renaissance Art History at
the University of Nottingham. She is also Reviews Editor for the
journal Gender & History.