CiNii 図書 - Gender in history : global perspectives

A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world's cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this comprehensive volume discusses the ways families, religions, social hierarchies, politics, work, education, art, sexuality, and other issues are linked to various conceptions of gender. Now organized chronologically rather than topically, this extensively revised edition presents a wealth of up-to-date information based on the scholarship of the last decade. New and expanded chapters offer insights on the connections between gender and key events and trends in world history, including domestication and the development of agriculture, the growth of cities and larger-scale political structures, the spread of world religions, changing ideas of race, class, and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, capitalism, wars, revolutions, and more. Written by a distinguished scholar in the field of women's and gender history, this third edition of Gender in History: Examines how gender roles were shaped by family life, religious traditions, various other institutions, and how the institutions were influenced by gender Considers why gender variations developed in different cultures and in diverse social, ethnic, and racial groups within a single culture Addresses ideas in different cultures that shaped both informal societal norms and formalized laws Explores debates about the origins of patriarchy, the development of complex gender hierarchies, and contemporary movements for social change Discusses the gender implications of modern issues including the global pandemic and ongoing cultural and economic shifts Includes an accessible introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues and an instructor's website site with visual and written original sources Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as those on women's history, women in world history, and gender in world history, and a valuable supplement for general survey courses within History and Women's and Gender Studies programs.

List of Figures viii Acknowledgments ix About the Companion Website x 1 Introduction 1 Women's and Gender History 1 World and Global History 4 Gender, Sex, and Sexuality 6 Difference and Intersectionality 9 Theory in History 11 Gender History as a Field 15 Structure of the Book 17 2 Ideas, Ideals, Norms, and Laws 23 The Nature and Roles of Men and Women 26 Binaries 32 Motherhood and Fatherhood 36 Ideologies, Norms, and Laws Prescribing Gender Inequity 39 Ideologies of Egalitarianism 42 3 Early Human History (to 3000 bce) 53 Early Hominids 54 Homo Sapiens 58 Paleolithic Society and Spirituality 61 Domestication 66 Agricultural Societies 68 The Origins of Patriarchy 72 4 Ancient Cities and States (3000 bce-600 bce) 85 Cities and Social Hierarchies 86 Writing 91 Families and Households 96 Work 103 Religions in the Ancient Near East 106 Hereditary Dynasties and Female Rulers 111 5 Classical Cultures (500 bce-500 ce) 120 Family Life in the Classical Cultures of Eurasia 121 Sexuality in Classical Eurasia 127 Philosophy and Religion in East Asia: Confucianism and Daoism 130 Religious Traditions of South Asia: Hinduism and Buddhism 132 Religious Traditions in the Mediterranean: Christianity 139 Education and Culture 143 6 The Middle Millennium (500 ce-1500 ce) 153 Families, Households, and Kin in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific 154 Religious Traditions Transmitted Orally 158 State Based Societies in the Americas 162 Courts and Courtly Culture 164 The Rise and Spread of Islam 168 Europe and the Mediterranean 174 Cities and the Gendering of Work 177 7 The Early Modern World (1500 ce-1800 ce) 184 Economic Developments 185 The Renaissance 191 Religious Transformations 197 Families and Race 200 Representations of Conquest and Colonialization 206 Women and Politics 208 8 The Modern World (1800 ce-2021 ce) 220 Industrialization 221 Imperialism 227 Nineteenth-century Movements for Social Change 229 Modern Sexuality 236 Wars, Revolutions, and Political Change 243 The Industrial and Postindustrial Economy 251 Families in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 258 Cultural Changes in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 264 Afterword 277 Index 282

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