A Companion to Gender History

Contents......Page 6
List of Plates......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PART I: THEMATIC ESSAYS ON GENDER ISSUES IN WORLD HISTORY......Page 22
1 Sexuality......Page 24
2 Gender and Labor in World History......Page 39
3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History......Page 64
4 Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks......Page 83
5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics......Page 99
6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory......Page 123
7 Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling......Page 142
8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts......Page 159
9 Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism......Page 183
10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality......Page 199
PART II: CHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS......Page 220
Prehistory......Page 222
11 Digging Up Gender in the Earliest Human Societies......Page 224
Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 BCE–1400 CE)......Page 240
12 Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE......Page 242
13 Gendered Themes in Early African History......Page 262
14 Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam......Page 286
15 Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean......Page 298
16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization......Page 318
Gender and the Development of Modern Society (1400–1750)......Page 334
17 Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the “World Regions” Framework......Page 336
18 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe......Page 356
19 Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe......Page 371
20 A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires......Page 384
Gender and the Modern World (1750–1920)......Page 404
21 Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa......Page 406
22 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914......Page 426
23 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia......Page 443
24 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919......Page 457
25 Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750–1914......Page 472
26 Latin America and the Caribbean......Page 490
27 North America from North of the 49th Parallel......Page 505
Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2003)......Page 524
28 Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth–Century Asia......Page 526
29 Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status......Page 553
30 Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe......Page 568
31 Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean......Page 581
32 Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand......Page 599
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