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<p>List of Figures ix</p> <p>About the Editors xi</p> <p>Contributors xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner?]Hanks</i></p> <p><b>Part I Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History</b></p> <p>1 Sexuality 11<br /><i>Robert A. Nye</i></p> <p>2 Gender and Labor in World History 27<br /><i>Laura Levine Frader</i></p> <p>3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 43<br /><i>Merry E. Wiesner?]Hanks</i></p> <p>4 The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual 59<br /><i>Darlene M. Juschka</i></p> <p>5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 75<br /><i>Susan Kingsley Kent</i></p> <p>6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 93<br /><i>Deirdre Keenan, with Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner?]Hanks</i></p> <p>7 Gender and Material Culture History 109<br /><i>Meha Priyadarshini</i></p> <p>8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts 129<br /><i>Mary D. Sheriff, with Merry E. Wiesner?]Hanks</i></p> <p>9 Gender, Revolution, and Anti?]Imperialism 151<br /><i>Patricia Acerbi</i></p> <p>10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 165<br /><i>Barbara Winslow</i></p> <p><b>Part II Chronological and Geographical Essays</b></p> <p><b>Early Societies (100,000 BCE–1400 CE)</b></p> <p>11 Gender in the Earliest Human Societies 187<br /><i>Marcia?]Anne Dobres</i></p> <p>12 Gendered Themes in Early African History 205<br /><i>Raevin Jimenez</i></p> <p>13 Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures 221<br /><i>Bella Vivante</i></p> <p>14 Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan 239<br /><i>Vivian?]Lee Nyitray</i></p> <p>15 Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent: Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges 253<br /><i>Kumkum Roy</i></p> <p>16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization 269<br /><i>Rosemary A. Joyce</i></p> <p>17 Medieval Europe 285<br /><i>Kate Kelsey Staples</i></p> <p><b>Gender in Early Modern Society (1400–1750)</b></p> <p>18 Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World 303<br /><i>Meghan K. Roberts</i></p> <p>19 Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations 319<br /><i>Barbara Watson Andaya</i></p> <p>20 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East 335<br /><i>Amy Kallander</i></p> <p>21 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories in Early Modern Western Europe 351<br /><i>Julie Hardwick</i></p> <p>22 The Atlantic World 367<br /><i>Allyson M. Poska and Susan D. Amussen</i></p> <p><b>Gender in the Modern World (1750–1920)</b></p> <p>23 New Global Imperialism 385<br /><i>Utsa Ray</i></p> <p>24 Women’s and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa, 1750–World War I 399<br /><i>Judith E. Tucker</i></p> <p>25 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914 415<br /><i>Marcia Wright</i></p> <p>26 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand 431<br /><i>Nupur Chaudhuri</i></p> <p>27 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919 445<br /><i>Anne Walthall</i></p> <p>28 Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750–1914 461<br /><i>Deborah Simonton</i></p> <p>29 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750–1914 479<br /><i>Christine D. Worobec</i></p> <p>30 Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1750–World War I 495<br /><i>Sonya Lipsett?]Rivera</i></p> <p>31 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 509<br /><i>Linda Kealey</i></p> <p><b>Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2020)</b></p> <p>32 Feminism and Gender Construction in Modern Asia 527<br /><i>Barbara Molony</i></p> <p>33 African Women since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 545<br /><i>Sean Redding</i></p> <p>34 The Gender of Modernization and the Modernization of Gender: Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914 561<br /><i>Jocelyn Olcott</i></p> <p>35 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe since World War I 577<br /><i>Karen Petrone</i></p> <p>36 Equality and Difference in the West since World War I: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 593<br /><i>Charles Sowerwine, with Patricia Grimshaw</i></p> <p>Index 613</p>

<p><b>Teresa A. Meade</b> 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: <i>A History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present</i> and<i> A Brief History of Brazil,</i> among others. A biography of a woman involved in the sanctuary movement entitled, <i>We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Survival and Activism from Poland to California</i>, is forthcoming. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of <i>Radical History Review</i>, former president of the Board of Trustees of <i>The Journal of Women's History</i>, and recipient of grants from Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.</p> <p><b>Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks</b> 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 <i>Sixteenth Century Journal,</i> former editor of the <i>Journal of Global History,</i> and the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume <i>Cambridge World History.</i> 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 <i>Gender in History: Global Perspectives</i> and <i>Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe.</i> Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.</p>

<p><b>A COMPANION TO GLOBAL GENDER HISTORY</b></p> <p><b>Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives</b></p> <p>This 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.</p> <p>Filled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, <i>A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li>Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays</li> <li>Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality</li> <li>Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world</li> </ul> <p><i>A Companion to Global Gender History</i> 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.</p>

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