Reflecting on Deborah Simonton’s "Gender in the European Town: Ancien Régime to the Modern"

N. Vershinina
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N. Vershinina: Audencia Business School

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Abstract: Deborah Simonton's Gender in the European Town: Ancien Régime to the Modern (2022) is an ambitious and richly textured anthology that explores the deep intertwining of gender, urban form, and socio‑economic life from the early modern period into the contemporary era. Bringing together sixteen essays, the book examines how gender roles and relations were both shaped by, and constitutive of, the European town. This review reads Simonton's volume through four thematic threads: urban space and mobility, gendered economies and entrepreneurship, civic identities and emerging masculinities, and ideology and memory, each anchored in relevant theoretical frameworks from gender studies and organization theory. This approach illuminates how the book's historical depth advances ongoing debates in Gender, Work & Organization Journal and related scholarship.

Keywords: gender; urban space; european towns; gendered economies; history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10
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Published in Gender, Work and Organization, 2025, ⟨10.1111/gwao.70053⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/gwao.70053

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