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Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives
This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions.
Filled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further.
A Companion to Global Gender History is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field.
Teresa A. Meade, is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She has focused on integrating issues of gender and ethnicity into the Latin American historical narrative through her teaching and her books, including: A History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present and A Brief History of Brazil, among others. A biography of a woman involved in the sanctuary movement entitled, We Don’t Become Refugees by Choice: Survival and Activism from Nazi Poland to California, is forthcoming. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, former president of the Board of Trustees of The Journal of Women’s History, and recipient of grants from Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal, former editor of the Journal of Global History, and the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume Cambridge World History. She is the author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean, and are widely used in teaching around the world, including Gender in History: Global Perspectives and Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.
List of Figures
About the Editors
Contributors
Introduction
Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
PART I THEMATIC ESSAYS ON GENDER ISSUES IN WORLD HISTORY
1 Sexuality
Robert A. Nye
2 Gender and Labor in World History
Laura Levine Frader
3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
4 The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual
Darlene M. Juschka
5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics
Susan Kingsley Kent
6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory
Deirdre Keenan, with Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
7 Gender and Material Culture History
Meha Priyadarshini
8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts
Mary D. Sheriff, with Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
9 Gender, Revolution, and Anti-Imperialism
Patricia Acerbi
10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality
Barbara Winslow
PART II CHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
Early Societies (100,000 BCE–1400 CE)
11 Gender in the Earliest Human Societies
Marcia-Anne Dobres
12 Gendered Themes in Early African History
Raevin Jimenez
13 Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures
Bella Vivante
14 Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan
Vivian-Lee Nyitray
15 Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent: Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges
Kumkum Roy
16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization
Rosemary A. Joyce
17 Medieval Europe
Kate Kelsey Staples
Gender in Early Modern Society (1400–1750)
18 Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World
Meghan K. Roberts
19 Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations
Barbara Watson Andaya
20 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Middle East
Amy Kallander
21 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories in Early Modern Western Europe
Julie Hardwick
22 The Atlantic World
Allyson M. Poska and Susan D. Amussen
Gender in the Modern World (1750–1920)
23 New Global Imperialism
Utsa Ray
24 Women’s and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa, 1750–World War I
Judith E. Tucker
25 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914
Marcia Wright
26 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
Nupur Chaudhuri
27 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919
Anne Walthall
28 Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750–1914
Deborah Simonton
29 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750–1914
Christine D. Worobec
30 Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1750–World War I
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
31 North America from North of the 49th Parallel
Linda Kealey
Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2020)
32 Feminism and Gender Construction in Modern Asia
Barbara Molony
33 African Women since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status
Sean Redding
34 The Gender of Modernization and the Modernization of Gender: Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914
Jocelyn Olcott
35 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe since World War I
Karen Petrone
36 Equality and Difference in the West since World War I: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
Charles Sowerwine, with Patricia Grimshaw
Index
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