Examining selected societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, this uniquely designed history discusses political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood, and enslavement; religious beliefs and spiritual development. It includes well known as well as lesser-known and anonymous women. Both primary and secondary source readings are included.

Introduction
1500-1800
China and Japan: The Neo-Confucian Regimes of the Qing Monarchy and the Tokugawa Shogunate
Qing Rape Laws
1646 Jonathan D. Spence
The Death of Woman Wang Vivien W. Ng
Rape Laws in Qing China
Qing Laws Encouraged Widows' Chastity
The Death of Woman
Widows à in Qing China
Chinese Women Artists Marsha Weidner, et al
Views from the Jade Terrace
Rural Japanese Women During the Tokugawa Period
1600-1868 Anne Walthall
Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan
The Middle East: Women of the Ottoman Empire
Paths to Power at the Ottoman Court
Ottoman Royal Women
The Imperial Harem
Muslim Women's Rights in Seventeenth-Century Turkish Courts
Women in à the Sharia Court
India: Women of the Mughal Empire
Hindu Bhakti Poets
Women Writing in India
Family Production of Cotton Cloth
Muslim Civilization in India
Mughal India
The Mughal Empress
Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
Europe: Witches, Workers and Queens
Witchcraze 1560-1760
Witchcraze
Women's Work
Women, Work, and Family
Working Life of Women
Many Queens
A History of Their Own Voltaire
Precis
Historie de la Guerre
Letter to
Gender in the European Colonization of the Americas
The Jesuit Attack on Algonquian Women
Countering Colonization
Pueblo and Apache Domestic Slaves in New Mexico
When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away
African Women in Barbados
Natural Rebels
Honor and Shame in New Spain
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away
The Independence of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Sor Juana
The Answer
African Women in a New Era of Commerce and State-Building
Fetu Women on the Coast of Ghana 1662-69
Description of the Fetu Country, 1662-1669
Slave Wives
Free Sisters: Bakongo Women
Slave Wives
Free Sisters
Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba 1624-63
Legitimacy and Political Power.à
Eur-African Women as Slave Traders
Women Slavers in Guinea-Conakry Part II 1800 - Present
Western Europe: Equality and Equity for New Women
French Revolution
Women in Revolutionary Paris
Changing Lives
George Sand
Novelist George Sand
Indiana
Changing Lives
Socialist Women: Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)
Changing Lives
Women's Work and the Trade Unions
The Right to Vote and Govern
Changing Lives
Relational and Individual Feminisms Karen Offen
Defining Feminism
The Welfare State Ida Blom
Voluntary Motherhood Gisela Bock and Pat Thane
Maternity & Gender Policies
Africa: The Colonial Legacy
Baba, a Hausa Woman of Nigeria
Baba of Karo
Divorce Among the Hausa
Baba of Karo
Widows Sold
Men Migrate
The Economic Position of Beti Widows
Women à in Colonial Western Kenya
Urban Women Migrants Christine Obbo
African Women
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya Maria Nzomo and Kathleen Straudt Man-made Political Machinery in Kenya Nahil Toubia
Female Genital Mutilation Claire Robertson
Grassroots in Kenya
The Symbol of the Veil in Modern Islam
Nomadic Carpet Weaving William Irons
The Place of Carpet Weaving in Turkman Society
Autobiography of Huda Shaarawi
Egyptian Feminist Huda Shaarawi
Harem Years
Women and the Iranian Revolution of 1978 Mary E. Hegland
Alibad Women
Women in Post-Revolutionary
Temporary Marriage
India: National Unity, Gender Divisions
Indian Women and the Disaster of British Rule
Women Writing in India
Voices from Within Kumari Jayawardena
Feminism and Nationalism
Coming out of Purdah Hanna Papanek
Caging the Lion
Dalit Women
Pan on Fire
Women as National Leaders-Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Seeking Liberation in New East Asian Societies, China and Japan after 1800
Women of the Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864
Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution
Women Hold up Half the Sky: Communist China after 1949
Women, Resistance and Revolution
Women in China
Report from a Chinese Village
Women's Contribution to Japan's Industrialization
Flowers in Salt
Japanese Women In World War II
The Broader Way
The Promotion Track vs. The Mommy Track in Postwar Japan
The Broader Way Sharon L. Sievers
Women in Japan
Americas: The Personal is Political
The 1837 Antislavery Convention of American Women Dorothy Sterling, ed.
Turning the World Upside Down
Feminism and Class in Argentina and Chile 1900-1925
Women, Labor and The Left
Village Women in Mexican Migrant Culture
Zapotec Women
Second Wave Feminism in the United States in the Sixties
Sisterhood is Powerful Dana Densmore
Sex Roles and Female Oppression
Different Voices Barbara Cameron
Gee You Don't Seem Like an Indian
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