A Companion To Gender History

• 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.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her recent books include Gender in History (Blackwell, 2001), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (1993), Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (1997), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (1999).

Contributors.

Introduction: Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Union College; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Part I. Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History:.

1. Sexuality: Robert A. Nye (Oregon State University).

2. Gender and Labor in World History: Laura Levine Frader (Northeastern University).

3. Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

4. Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks: Ursula King (University of Bristol).

5. Gender Rules: Law and Politics: Susan Kinsley Kent (University of Colorado, Boulder).

6. Race, Gender, and other Differences in Feminist Theory: Deirdre Keenan (Carroll College).

7. Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling: Pavla Miller (RMIT in Melbourne).

8. How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts: Mary D. Sheriff (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

9. Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism: Temma Kaplan (Rutgers University).

10. Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality: Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York).

Part II: Chronological and Geographical Essays:.

Prehistory.

11. Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies: Marcia-Anne Dobres (University of California, Berkeley).

Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 BCE–1400 CE).

12. Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE: Guity Nashat (University of Illinois at Chicago).

13. Gendered Themes in Early African History: David Schoenbrun (Northwestern University).

14. Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam: Vivian-Lee Nyitray (University of California, Riverside).

15. Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean, 40000 BCE to 1400 CE: Paul Halsall (University of North Florida).

16. Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization: Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley).

Gender and the Development of Modern Society (1400–1750).

17. Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the “World Regions Framework”: Barbara Watson Andaya (University of Hawai’i).

18. Did Gender have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe: Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin).

19. Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe: Nancy Shields Kollman (Stanford University).

20. A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires: Verena Stolcke (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona).

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: Judith Tucker (Georgetown University).

22. Gender, Women, and the Power in Africa, 1750–1914: Marcia Wright (Columbia University).

23. Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia: Nupur Chaudhuri (Texas Southern University).

24. From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State of East Asia, 1600–1919: Anne Walthall (University of California, Irvine).

25. Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750–1914: Deborah Valenze (Barnard College, Columbia University).

26. Latin America and the Caribbean: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Carleton University).

27. North America from North of the 49th Parallel: Linda Kealey (University of New Brunswick).

Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2003).

28. Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia: Barbara Molony (Santa Clara University).

29. Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Sean Redding (Amherst College).

30. Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe: Barbara Evans Clements (The University of Akron).

31. Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean: Susan K. Besse (City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY).

32. Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand: Charles Sowerwine with Patricia Grimshaw (University of Melbourne; University of Melbourne).

Bibliography.

Index