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Companion to Gender History [Minkštas viršelis]

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(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), (Union College, New York)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 690 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 246x173x36 mm, weight: 1170 g
  • Serija: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2006
  • Leidėjas: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405149604
  • ISBN-13: 9781405149600
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 690 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 246x173x36 mm, weight: 1170 g
  • Serija: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2006
  • Leidėjas: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405149604
  • ISBN-13: 9781405149600
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.

  • An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
  • Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history and gender history.
  • Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race and religion to the formation of gendered societies.
  • Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays.
  • Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as well as to the modern era.
  • Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and scholars for whom English is not their first language.

Recenzijos

This book is a reference masterpiece [ with] clear and comprehensible writing. The authors present a truly global study. Reference Reviews

List of Plates
viii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1(10)
Teresa A. Meade
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Part I Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History
Sexuality
11(15)
Robert A. Nye
Gender and Labor in World History
26(25)
Laura Levine Frader
Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History
51(19)
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks
70(16)
Ursula King
Gender Rules: Law and Politics
86(24)
Susan Kingsley Kent
Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory
110(19)
Deirdre Keenan
Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling
129(17)
Pavla Miller
How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts
146(24)
Mary D. Sheriff
Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism
170(16)
Temma Kaplan
Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality
186(25)
Barbara Winslow
Part II Chronological and Geographical Essays
Prehistory
Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies
211(18)
Marcia-Anne Dobres
Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 BCE--1400 CE)
Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE
229(20)
Guity Nashat
Gendered Themes in Early African History
249(24)
David Schoenbrun
Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
273(12)
Vivian-Lee Nyitray
Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean
285(20)
Paul Halsall
Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization
305(18)
Rosemary A. Joyce
Gender and the Development of Modern Society (1400--1750)
Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the ``World Regions'' Framework
323(20)
Barbara Watson Andaya
Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe
343(15)
Julie Hardwick
Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe
358(13)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires
371(22)
Verena Stolcke
Gender and the Modern World (1750--1920)
Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa
393(20)
Judith Tucker
Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750--1914
413(17)
Marcia Wright
Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia
430(14)
Nupur Chaudhuri
From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the State in East Asia, 1600--1919
444(15)
Anne Walthall
Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750--1914
459(18)
Deborah Valenze
Latin America and the Caribbean
477(15)
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
North America from North of the 49th Parallel
492(21)
Linda Kealey
Gender in the Contemporary World (1920--2003)
Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia
513(27)
Barbara Molony
Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status
540(15)
Sean Redding
Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe
555(13)
Barbara Evans Clements
Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean
568(18)
Susan K. Besse
Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
586(25)
Charles Sowerwine
Patricia Grimshaw
Bibliography 611(43)
Index 654


Teresa A. Meade is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Women's Studies at Union College, New York. She is the author of "Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City (1997), A Brief History of Brazil (2003), and is working on a project on marriage on the Alta California frontier, 17691860. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her recent books include Gender in History (Blackwell, 2001), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (1993), iscovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (1997), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (1999).