{"product_id":"a-companion-to-global-gender-history-isbn-9781119535805","title":"A Companion to Global Gender History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Global Gender History\u003c\/i\u003e, Second Edition makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Global Gender History\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Sexuality 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A. Nye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Gender and Labor in World History 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Levine Frader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerry E. Wiesner‐Hanks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarlene M. Juschka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Kingsley Kent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeirdre Keenan, with Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Gender and Material Culture History 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeha Priyadarshini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary D. Sheriff, with Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Gender, Revolution, and Anti‐Imperialism 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Acerbi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Winslow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Chronological and Geographical Essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarly Societies (100,000 BCE–1400 CE)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Gender in the Earliest Human Societies 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcia‐Anne Dobres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Gendered Themes in Early African History 205\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaevin Jimenez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBella Vivante\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVivian‐Lee Nyitray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent: Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKumkum Roy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosemary A. Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Medieval Europe 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Kelsey Staples\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGender in Early Modern Society (1400–1750)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeghan K. Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Watson Andaya\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Kallander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories in Early Modern Western Europe 351\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Hardwick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Atlantic World 367\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllyson M. Poska and Susan D. Amussen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGender in the Modern World (1750–1920)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 New Global Imperialism 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUtsa Ray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Women’s and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa, 1750–World War I 399\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith E. Tucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcia Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand 431\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNupur Chaudhuri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Walthall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750–1914 461\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Simonton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750–1914 479\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine D. Worobec\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1750–World War I 495\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonya Lipsett‐Rivera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 509\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Kealey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGender in the Contemporary World (1920–2020)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Feminism and Gender Construction in Modern Asia 527\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Molony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 African Women since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 545\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSean Redding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The Gender of Modernization and the Modernization of Gender: Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914 561\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJocelyn Olcott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe since World War I 577\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Petrone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Equality and Difference in the West since World War I: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 593\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Sowerwine, with Patricia Grimshaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 613\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeresa A. Meade\u003c\/b\u003e is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture Emerita at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She has focused on integrating issues of gender and ethnicity into the Latin American historical narrative through her teaching and her books, including: \u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e A Brief History of Brazil,\u003c\/i\u003e among others. A biography of a woman involved in the sanctuary movement entitled, \u003ci\u003eWe Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Survival and Activism from Poland to California\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of \u003ci\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/i\u003e, former president of the Board of Trustees of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e, and recipient of grants from Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time senior editor of the \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal,\u003c\/i\u003e former editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Global History,\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume \u003ci\u003eCambridge World History.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean, and are widely used in teaching around the world, including \u003ci\u003eGender in History: Global Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWomen and Gender in Early Modern Europe.\u003c\/i\u003e Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO GLOBAL GENDER HISTORY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \t\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Global Gender History\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988607844581,"sku":"NP9781119535805","price":221.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119535805.jpg?v=1761780953","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-global-gender-history-isbn-9781119535805","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}