Deborah Simonton

Deborah Simonton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Visiting Professor, University of Turku, Associate Professor of British History, emerita, University of Southern Denmark, She was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Utah State University (2016). She publishes on women’s work, gender and towns and girlhood, including A History of European Women’s Work (1998), Women in European Culture and Society, and Sourcebook (2006, 2007). Her network Gender in the European Town led to six published volumes and she is General Editor of The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience (2017), and she published Gender in the European Town (Routledge 2023). With Anne Montenach she won the Association of American Publishers Prose Award for The Cultural History of Work (6 vols, Bloomsbury, 2018). She is also co-editor with Katie Barclay and Elaine Chalus of the Routledge History of Loneliness (2023). She is contributing to the Cultural History of Luxury and the Cambridge History of Urban Europe and is writing a history of The Working Girl and Girlhood in the eighteenth century and a four volume sources set for Routledge on Women in Industry, 1760–1914.She studies the gendered and power relations articulated in the shifting economic structures of corporate towns in the context of commercial and polite culture. She is interested in the language of skill, which drew heavily on the masculine traditions of urban guilds and apprenticeship, and she has explored how the urban community was masculinised, how women utilised a range of strategies to either conform or circumvent urban regulation
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