Title:
A companion to gender history / edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.
Blackwell companions to history
Author:
Meade, Teresa A., 1948-
Wiesner, Merry E. 1952-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-653) and index.
Thematic essays on gender issues in world history. 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, and anti-Imperialism / Temma Kaplan -- Feminist movements : gender and sexual equality / Barbara Winslow -- Chronological and geographical essays : prehistory. Gender in the formation of the earliest human societies / Marcia-Anne Dobres -- Classical and post-classical societies (2000 BCE-1400 CE). 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 and the development of modern society (1400-1750). Gender history, Southeast Asia, and the "world regions" framework / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Did gender have a 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 -- Gender and the modern world (1750-1920). 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 -- Clash 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 -- Gender in the contemporary world (1920-2003). 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 K. Besse -- Equality and difference in the twentieth-century West : North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand / Charles Sowerwine with Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher:
Blackwell Pub.,
Publication Place:
Malden, MA :
ISBN:
0631223932 (alk. paper)
9780631223931 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Sex role -- History.
Gender identity -- History.
Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
Gender identity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Feminist theory.
Sekseverschillen.
Rمole selon le sexe -- Histoire.
Identitâe sexuelle -- Histoire.
Rمole selon le sexe -- âEtudes transculturelles.
Identitâe sexuelle -- âEtudes transculturelles.
Thâeorie fâeministe.
Series:
Blackwell companions to history
Contents:
Sexuality / Gender and labor in world history / Structures and meanings in a gendered family history / Religion and gender : embedded patterns, interwoven frameworks / Gender rules : law and politics / Race, gender, and other differences in feminist theory / Gender and education before and after mass schooling / How images got their gender : masculinity and femininity in the visual arts / Revolution, Nationalism, and anti-Imperialism / Feminist movements : gender and sexual equality / Gender in the formation of the earliest human societies / Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE / Gendered themes in early African History / Confucian complexities : China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Early western civilization under the sign of gender : Europe and the Mediterranean / Gender in the ancient Americas : from earliest villages to European colonization / Gender history, Southeast Asia, and the "world regions" framework / Did gender have a renaissance? Exclusions and traditions in early modern Western Europe / Self, society, and gender in early modern Russia and Eastern Europe / A new world engendered : the making of the Iberian transatlantic empires / Rescued from obscurity : contributions and challenges in writing the history of gender in the Middle East and North Africa / Gender, women, and power in Africa, 1750-1914 / Clash of cultures : gender and colonialism in South and Southeast Asia / From private to public patriarchy : women, labor and the state in East Asia, 1600-1919 / Gender in the formation of European power, 1750-1914 / Latin America and the Caribbean / North America from North of the 49th Parallel / Frameworks of gender : feminism and nationalism in twentieth-century Asia / Women and gender roles in Africa Since 1918 : gender as a determinant of status / Continuities amid change : gender ideas and arrangements in twentieth-century Russia and Eastern Europe / Engendering reform and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America and the Caribbean / Equality and difference in the twentieth-century West : North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand /
Physical Description:
xii, 676 p. : ill. ;
Formatted Contents Note:
Thematic essays on gender issues in world history. Chronological and geographical essays : prehistory. Classical and post-classical societies (2000 BCE-1400 CE). Gender and the development of modern society (1400-1750). Gender and the modern world (1750-1920). Gender in the contemporary world (1920-2003).
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0612/2003000664.html
Publication Date:
2004.
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