A companion to gender history / edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meade, Teresa A., 1948-

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952-

Series:

Blackwell companions to history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

History.

Gender identity--History.

Gender identity.

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.

Gender identity--Cross-cultural studies.

Feminist theory.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 676 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Summary:

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. It contains both thematic essays, which demonstrate how gender has intersected with other historical topics, and chronological-geographic essays, which explore gender in one area of the world during a specific period. All the essays consider the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race, and religion to the formation of gendered societies. The book discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history within an engendered political, economic, and social context. One of the key points to emerge from the volume as a whole is that no generalization about gender has applied to all times or all places. The contributions are written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and beyond, and includes academics from other disciplines as well as history.

Contents:

Sexuality / Robert A. Nye

Gender and labor in world history / Laura Levine Frader

Structures and meanings in a gendered family history / Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Religion and gender : embedded patterns, interwoven frameworks / Ursula King

Gender rules : law and politics / Susan Kingsley Kent

Race, gender, and other differences in feminist theory / Deirdre Keenan

Gender and education before and after mass schooling / Pavla Miller

How images got their gender : masculinity and femininity in the visual arts / Mary D. Sheriff

Revolution, nationalism, anti-imperialism / Temma Kaplan

Feminist movements : gender and sexual equality / Barbara Winslow

Digging up gender in the earliest human societies / Marcia-Anne Dobres

Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE / Guity Nashat

Gendered themes in early African history / David Schoenbrun

Confucian complexities : China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam / Vivian-Lee Nyitray

Early western civilization under the sign of gender : Europe, and the Mediterranean / Paul Halsall

Gender in the ancient Americas : from earliest villages to European colonization / Rosemary A. Joyce

Gender history, Southeast Asia, and the "World Regions" framework / Barbara Watson Andaya

Did gender havea renaissance? : exclusions and traditions in early modern western Europe / Julie Hardwick

Self, society and gender in early modern Russia and Eastern Europe / Nancy Shields Kollmann

A new world engendered : the making of the Iberian transatlantic empires / Verena Stolcke

Rescued from obscurity : contributions and challenges in writing the history of gender in the Middle East and North Africa / Judith Tucker

Gender, women and power in Africa, 1750-1914 / Marcia Wright

Class of cultures : gender and colonialism in south and southeast Asia / Nupur Chaudhuri

From private to public patriarchy : women, labor and the state in East Asia, 1600-1919 / Anne Walthall

Gender in the formation of European power, 1750-1914 / Deborah Valenze

Latin America and the Caribbean / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

North America from north of the 49th parallel / Linda Kealey

Frameworks of gender : feminism and nationalism in twentieth-century Asia / Barbara Molony

Women and gender roles in Africa since 1918 : gender as a determinant of status / Sean Redding

Continuities amid change : gender ideas and arrangements in twentieth-century Russia and Eastern Europe / Barbara Evans Clements

Engendering reform and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America and the Caribbean / Susan Besse

Equality and difference in the twentieth-century West : North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand / Charles Sowerwine with Patricia Grimshaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [611]-653) and index.

ISBN:

0631223932

OCLC:

51460483