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