ISBN:
9780470692820
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (690 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Ser
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.3/09
Keywords:
Feminist theory
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Gender identity ; Cross-cultural studies
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Gender identity ; History
;
Sex role ; Cross-cultural studies
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Sex role ; History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A COMPANION TO GENDER HISTORY -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Thematic essays on Gender Issues in World History -- 1 Sexuality -- 2 Gender and Labor in World History -- 3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History -- 4 Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks -- 5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics -- 6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory -- 7 Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling -- 8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts -- 9 Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism -- 10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality -- Part II Chronological and Geographical Essays -- Prehistory -- 11 Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies -- Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 bce-1400 ce) -- 12 Women in the Middle East, 8000 bce to 1700 ce -- 13 Gendered Themes in Early African History -- 14 Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam -- 15 Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean -- 16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization -- Gender and the Development of Modern Society (1400-1750) -- 17 Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the "World Regions" Framework -- 18 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe -- 19 Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe -- 20 A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires -- Gender and the Modern World (1750-1920) -- 21 Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa -- 22 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750-1914 -- 23 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia.
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