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Non-elite or marginalized early modern women - among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers - have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- marginalized, religious or ethnic minorities, alliances, social agents. --- Women --- History. --- Social networks

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Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including its various forms-human, Indigenous, housing, property rights, and various other forms of rights. Using empirical evidence and examples, they translate the philosophical and legal aspects of rights into more practical terms and applications. Regionally, the book draws on municipalities from across Canada while also making broad international comparisons. Scholars, policy makers, and activists with an interest in urban studies, planning, and law will find much of value throughout this volume. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Rachelle Alterman, Sasha Best, Alexandra Flynn, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Ola P. Malik, Jennifer A. Orange, Michelle L. Oren, Renée Vaugeois. Afterword by Benjamin Davy

Urban communities --- municipal government --- community --- civil society --- collective rights --- Henri Lefebvre --- John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights --- First Nations --- minority --- marginalized --- homeless --- lawyer --- urban planner --- city council --- law --- development --- policy --- municipal government --- community --- civil society --- collective rights --- Henri Lefebvre --- John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights --- First Nations --- minority --- marginalized --- homeless --- lawyer --- urban planner --- city council --- law --- development --- policy

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Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including its various forms-human, Indigenous, housing, property rights, and various other forms of rights. Using empirical evidence and examples, they translate the philosophical and legal aspects of rights into more practical terms and applications. Regionally, the book draws on municipalities from across Canada while also making broad international comparisons. Scholars, policy makers, and activists with an interest in urban studies, planning, and law will find much of value throughout this volume. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Rachelle Alterman, Sasha Best, Alexandra Flynn, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Ola P. Malik, Jennifer A. Orange, Michelle L. Oren, Renée Vaugeois. Afterword by Benjamin Davy

Urban communities --- municipal government --- community --- civil society --- collective rights --- Henri Lefebvre --- John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights --- First Nations --- minority --- marginalized --- homeless --- lawyer --- urban planner --- city council --- law --- development --- policy

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Across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, urban farmers and gardeners are reclaiming cultural traditions linked to food, farming, and health; challenging systemic racism and injustice in the food system; demanding greater community control of resources in marginalized neighborhoods; and moving towards their visions of more equitable urban futures. As part of this urgent work, urban farmers and gardeners encounter and reckon with both the cultural meanings and material legacies of the past. Drawing on their narratives, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants.

Urban agriculture --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, farmworkers, farming, farmers, urban farmers, garden, gardeners, food, health, systemic racism, food system, food industry, racism, marginalized neighborhoods, equitable urban futures, urban gardeners, inequalities, inequality, land, soil, plants, field.

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"While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghrebin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society"--Provided by publisher.

Sociology of minorities --- Migration. Refugees --- France --- North Africa --- Children of immigrants --- North Africans --- Ethnic identity. --- Maghrebians --- Maghrebi --- Maghrebis --- Maghribis --- Ethnology --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- african history. --- black experience. --- black identity. --- citizenship. --- european history. --- france. --- french citizens. --- french citizenship. --- french education. --- french language. --- immigrant experience. --- immigrant. --- immigration. --- marginalized groups. --- marginalized people. --- middle class. --- migrant. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- north africa. --- north african immigrants. --- public sphere. --- racial identity. --- upward mobility. --- western world. --- workplace.