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A Companion to Global Gender History.

Meade, Teresa A.

A Companion to Global Gender History. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (812 pages) - Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series . - Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- List of Figures -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History -- Chapter One: Sexuality -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Two: Gender and Labor in World History -- Early Human Societies and the Emergence of Gender Divisions -- The Emergence of Complex Societies and Gender Divisions in the Ancient World -- Militarization, Decentralization, and Gender Divisions in Feudal Societies -- Merchant Capitalism, Gender Ideology, and Protoindustrialization -- Industrial Capitalism, and Public and Private Labor -- Resistance, War, and Revolution, and the State -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Three: Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History -- Sources for a Gendered Family History -- Family Structures and Functions -- Relations within the Family -- State Intervention in Family Life -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Four: The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual -- Introduction -- The Terrain and What is at Stake -- Inscribing Gender in the Flesh: Making the "Female" and "Male" in the Ancient World -- Circumcision, Identity, and Rites of Passage -- Circumcision and the Sande and Poro of the Mende of Sierra Leone -- Maintaining Gender in and through Mythology -- Gender in Sande and Poro Masks -- Concluding Comments -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Five: Gender Rules: Law and Politics -- Ancient Patriarchy -- The Medieval and Early Modern Periods -- The French Revolution -- Western Models in a Colonial Setting -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Six: Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory -- Concepts of Race -- Concepts of Women, Sex, and Gender -- The Inseparable Nature of Race and Gender. More than Analogous: Sexuality, Border Identities, and Disability -- Located Knowledges: Representation and Positionality -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Seven: Gender and Material Culture History -- Introduction: Genders of Things, Things of Genders -- Women's History and Material Culture Studies -- Gender, Material Culture, and Consumption -- Gender, Material Culture, and Production -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Eight: How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts -- Women Artists and Gender Analysis -- Symbolism and Subversion -- Women, Gender, and the Arts of East Asia -- Artist, Patron, Image -- Critical Race Theory and Art -- Postcolonial and Globalized Art History -- LGBTQ+ Studies in Art -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Nine: Gender, Revolution, and Anti‐Imperialism -- Revolution -- Anti‐Imperialism -- Transnationalism -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Ten: Feminist Movements -- Feminist Movements and Feminism -- Women and Rebellion in Early Modern Europe -- Nineteenth‐Century Liberal Feminism -- Socialism and Feminism -- Anti‐Colonialism, National Independence, and Feminism -- Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s -- International Feminism and Intersectionality in the Twenty‐First Century -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Part II: Chronological and Geographical Essays -- Early Societies (100,000 BCE-1400 CE) -- Chapter Eleven: Gender in the Earliest Human Societies -- Gender in Prehistory (c.40,000-4,000 years BP) -- Studying Ancient Gender -- Conclusions -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twelve: Gendered Themes in Early African History -- Kinship, Motherhood, and Healing in East Africa -- Masculinity and Marriage in Southern Africa -- Men's Work, Women's Work, and Social Organization in Central Africa. Clanship, Households, and Incorporation in Atlantic‐Era West Africa -- Gendered Themes in Early African History -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Thirteen: Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures -- Religion and Rituals -- Gender Identities and Sexual Norms -- Social Restrictions -- The Life Cycle -- Women's Work in the Household and Beyond -- Governance -- Warfare -- Women's Voices -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Fourteen: Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan -- China -- Korea -- Vietnam -- Japan -- Summary Reflections -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Fifteen: Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent: Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges -- Introduction -- From the Second to the Mid‐First Millennium BCE -- Early Historic Developments -- Recognizing Regional Diversities -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Sixteen: Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization -- Village Life -- Stratified Societies -- From Stratified Societies to States -- Future Directions -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Seventeen: Medieval Europe -- Governing -- Labor -- Legal Structures -- Material Culture -- Conclusions -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Gender in Early Modern Society (1400-1750) -- Chapter Eighteen: Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World -- Spaces and Strategies -- Science -- Health and Healing -- Gendered Knowledge -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Nineteen: Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia into Global Conversations -- Gender Roles and Indigenous Ritual -- Incoming Religious Influence and Changing Gender Regimes -- Gender and Rural Economics -- Global Trade and Gendered Influences. Class Differences: Court and Village -- Concluding Remarks -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East -- High Culture: Palace Women and Dynastic Politics -- Elite Households Beyond the Court -- Middle and Lower Class Women in Provincial Towns and the Countryside -- Gender, Sexuality, and Poetry -- Eighteenth‐Century Changes -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐One: Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories in Early Modern Western Europe -- Renaissance Italy -- Work and Family -- Protestant and Catholic Reformations -- Gender, Power, and Politics -- The Many Women of Early Modern Europe -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Two: The Atlantic World -- Gender and the Imposition of Imperial Control -- Women, Gender, and the Adaptation and/or Acquiescence to Imperial Control -- Women, Gender, and Resistance to Empire -- Conclusion: Empire as a Gendered Category of Analysis -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Gender in the Modern World (1750-1920) -- Chapter Twenty‐Three: New Global Imperialism -- Stages of Empire -- The "Woman Question" -- Race, Gender, and Empire -- Mixed‐Race Families -- Masculinity, Sexuality, and Empire -- The "Other" Empire -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Four: Women's and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa, 1750-World War I -- Property and Power -- Law and Gender -- Sexuality -- Family Life -- The "New Woman" -- Women's Movements and Nationalism -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Five: Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750-1914 -- Kinship and Conjugality -- Slavery and Women's Work -- Political Power Wielded by Women -- Women and Trade: Issues of Autonomy and Agency. Gender, Colonial Capitalism, and Initial Colonial Conditions -- Sexuality, Masculinity, and Control of Women -- Conclusions Without Closure -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Six: Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Australia and New Zealand -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Seven: From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and the State in East Asia, 1600-1919 -- Status Inequality and Sex Segregation -- Crises and Reforms in the Nineteenth Century -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Eight: Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750-1914 -- Introduction -- Enlightenment and Revolution -- Domesticity and its Discontents -- Industrialism and Urbanism -- Power and Politics -- Empire, Travel, and Leisure -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Twenty‐Nine: Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750-1914 -- Elite Women -- Serf Women -- Jewish Women -- Intellectual and Cultural Life -- The Emancipation of the Serfs -- Women's Education -- Women's Charitable Activities -- Reform and Revolutions -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Thirty: Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1750-World War I -- The Eighteenth Century -- Rebellions -- Independence Wars -- Slavery and Emancipation -- Gender and Nation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING -- Chapter Thirty‐One: North America from North of the 49th Parallel -- Overviews and Collections -- New France and British North America -- Indigenous Women -- Working and Family Lives in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Middle and Upper‐Class Women: Law, Religion and Social Reform -- Bodies, Reproductive Health and Sexuality -- Science and Healthcare. Women's Suffrage.

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Sex role-History.


Electronic books.

HQ1075 .C667 2021

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