Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia.
The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, its heated debates, its racism, discussion of religious belief and values, commitment to social change, and the struggles of women around the world for gender justice. Authors approach past understandings and todays evolving sense of what feminism or womanism or gender justice are from multiple viewpoints. These perspectives are geographical to highlight commonalities and differences from region to region or nation to nation; they are also chronological suggesting change or continuity from the ancient world to our digital age. Across five parts, authors delve into topics such as colonialism, empire, the arts, labor activism, family, and displacement as the means to take the pulse of feminism from specific vantage points highlighting that there is no single feminist story but rather multiple portraits of a broad cast of activists and thinkers.
Comprehensive and properly global, this is the ideal volume for students and scholars of womens and gender history, womens studies, social history, political movements and feminism.
Part 1: Feminism, What Is It?
1. Definitions: An Overview
2.
Foundations, Elements, Roots
3. Varieties of Feminist Activism
4. Feminism as
Global Endeavor Part 2: Historical Perspectives
5. The Pre-modern World
6.
The Early Modern World
7. The Nineteenth Century
8. The Twentieth Century
9.
The Digital Age and Beyond Part 3: Regional Thought and Activism
10. The
Pacific
11. East Asia
12. Southeast Asia
13. South Asia
14. Middle East and
North Africa
15. Sub-Saharan Africa: Religion
16. Sub-Saharan Africa: Rights
17. Europe and Russia
18. Latin America and the Caribbean
19. North America
Part 4: Topics in Feminism I: Politics and Society
20. Political Life and the
Law
21. Empire and Colonialism
22. Decolonization
23. Nation and Nationalism
24. Socialism
25. Democracy
26. Thoughts: Disability
27. Revolution
28. War,
Peace, and Security
29. Displacement Part 5: Topics in Feminism II: Thought,
Structures, Culture
30. Intersections, Struggles
31. Mana Wahine
32. The Arts
33. Thoughts: The Body and Sexuality
34. Religion
35. Race and Ethnicity
36.
Family
37. Poverty, Work, and Labor
38. Technology
39. Thoughts: Ecofeminism
and the Animal World
Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, Rutgers University. She is the author of essays in womens, gender, European, and world history as well as author, co-author, and editor of numerous books in these fields, including recently Womens Studies: The Basics and Women in World History since 1450.
Nova Robinson is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Seattle University. Her research is situated at the intersection of womens history, Middle Eastern history, and the history of international governance. Her book Truly Sisters: Arab Women and International Womens Rights is forthcoming.
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