Title Gender in urban Europe : sites of political activity and citizenship, 1750-1900 / edited by Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed and Åsa Karlsson Sjögren

Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge Research in Gender and History ; 19 Routledge research in gender and history ; 19. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; SECTION I Gendered Use of Public Space in the Development of Citizenship; Introduction to Section I; 1 'To merit the countenance of the Magistrates': Gender and Civic Identity in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen; 2 Feeling Civic: Emotions, Gender and Civic Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen; 3 Defending Citizenship, Defining Citizenship: Rumours, Pamphleteering and the General Public in Late Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen; 4 Manly Magistrates and Citizenship in an Irish Town: Carlow, 1820-1840 SECTION II Political Conflicts, Unruly Political Behavior and Gendered CitizenshipIntroduction to Section II; 5 The Burcot Bear: Gender, Power and Belonging in the Wells Election of 1765; 6 Food Riots in Nineteenth-Century Sweden; 7 'For the Defense of Our Liberty': Gender in Dutch Civic Militancy (1780-1800); 8 Citizenship in Action: Hanseatic Women's Wartime Associations; SECTION III Citizenship, Philanthropy and Voluntary Work; Introduction to Section III; 9 Citizenship, Poor Relief and the Politics of Gender in Swedish Cities and Towns at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 10 Performing Male Political Citizenship: Local Philanthropy as an Arena for Practicing and Negotiating Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century Denmark11 'On Their Behalf No Agitator Raises His Voice': The Irish Distressed Ladies Fund-Gender, Politics and Urban Philanthropy in Victorian Ireland; 12 Honour or Control?: Female Recipients of Prussian State Decorations in a Civic Context; 13 Woman, Locality and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Contributors; Index Summary This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces, outlining how a particular activity was constituted as political and exploring how this contributed to a gendered concept of citizenship. The comparative and transnational perspectives revealed through combining such work contributes to establishing new knowledge about the relationship between gender, citizenship and the development of the modern town in Northern Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd Europa gnd Subject Sex role -- Europe -- History Citizenship -- Europe National characteristics, European -- History Nationalism -- Europe -- History Women -- Political activity -- Europe -- History Political participation -- Europe -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Citizenship National characteristics, European Nationalism Political participation Sex role Women -- Political activity Geschlechterrolle Politische Beteiligung Politisches Handeln Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Cowman, Krista, 1964- editor. Koefoed, Nina, editor Sjögren, Åsa Karlsson, editor ISBN 9781135115135 1135115133 9780203709306 0203709306

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