CiNii Books - A companion to global gender history

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. Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world 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.

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List of Figures ix About the Editors xi Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Part I Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History 1 Sexuality 11 Robert A. Nye 2 Gender and Labor in World History 27 Laura Levine Frader 3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 43 Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 4 The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual 59 Darlene M. Juschka 5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 75 Susan Kingsley Kent 6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 93 Deirdre Keenan, with Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 7 Gender and Material Culture History 109 Meha Priyadarshini 8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts 129 Mary D. Sheriff, with Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 9 Gender, Revolution, and Anti-Imperialism 151 Patricia Acerbi 10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 165 Barbara Winslow Part II Chronological and Geographical Essays Early Societies (100,000 BCE-1400 CE) 11 Gender in the Earliest Human Societies 187 Marcia-Anne Dobres 12 Gendered Themes in Early African History 205 Raevin Jimenez 13 Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures 221 Bella Vivante 14 Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan 239 Vivian-Lee Nyitray 15 Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent: Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges 253 Kumkum Roy 16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization 269 Rosemary A. Joyce 17 Medieval Europe 285 Kate Kelsey Staples Gender in Early Modern Society (1400-1750) 18 Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World 303 Meghan K. Roberts 19 Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations 319 Barbara Watson Andaya 20 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East 335 Amy Kallander 21 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories in Early Modern Western Europe 351 Julie Hardwick 22 The Atlantic World 367 Allyson M. Poska and Susan D. Amussen Gender in the Modern World (1750-1920) 23 New Global Imperialism 385 Utsa Ray 24 Women's and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa, 1750-World War I 399 Judith E. Tucker 25 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750-1914 415 Marcia Wright 26 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand 431 Nupur Chaudhuri 27 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State in East Asia, 1600-1919 445 Anne Walthall 28 Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750-1914 461 Deborah Simonton 29 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750-1914 479 Christine D. Worobec 30 Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1750-World War I 495 Sonya Lipsett-Rivera 31 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 509 Linda Kealey Gender in the Contemporary World (1920-2020) 32 Feminism and Gender Construction in Modern Asia 527 Barbara Molony 33 African Women since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 545 Sean Redding 34 The Gender of Modernization and the Modernization of Gender: Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914 561 Jocelyn Olcott 35 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe since World War I 577 Karen Petrone 36 Equality and Difference in the West since World War I: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 593 Charles Sowerwine, with Patricia Grimshaw Index 613

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