Gender in History - Global Perspectives

A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout
 
Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world's cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this comprehensive volume discusses the ways families, religions, social hierarchies, politics, work, education, art, sexuality, and other issues are linked to various conceptions of gender.
 
Now organized chronologically rather than topically, this extensively revised edition presents a wealth of up-to-date information based on the scholarship of the last decade. New and expanded chapters offer insights on the connections between gender and key events and trends in world history, including domestication and the development of agriculture, the growth of cities and larger-scale political structures, the spread of world religions, changing ideas of race, class, and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, capitalism, wars, revolutions, and more. Written by a distinguished scholar in the field of women's and gender history, this third edition of Gender in History:
* Examines how gender roles were shaped by family life, religious traditions, various other institutions, and how the institutions were influenced by gender
* Considers why gender variations developed in different cultures and in diverse social, ethnic, and racial groups within a single culture
* Addresses ideas in different cultures that shaped both informal societal norms and formalized laws
* Explores debates about the origins of patriarchy, the development of complex gender hierarchies, and contemporary movements for social change
* Discusses the gender implications of modern issues including the global pandemic and ongoing cultural and economic shifts
* Includes an accessible introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues and an instructor's website site with visual and written original sources
 
Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as those on women's history, women in world history, and gender in world history, and a valuable supplement for general survey courses within History and Women's and Gender Studies programs.

List of contents

List of Figures viii
 
Acknowledgments ix
 
About the Companion Website x
 
1 Introduction 1
 
Women's and Gender History 1
 
World and Global History 4
 
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality 6
 
Difference and Intersectionality 9
 
Theory in History 11
 
Gender History as a Field 15
 
Structure of the Book 17
 
2 Ideas, Ideals, Norms, and Laws 23
 
The Nature and Roles of Men and Women 26
 
Binaries 32
 
Motherhood and Fatherhood 36
 
Ideologies, Norms, and Laws Prescribing Gender Inequity 39
 
Ideologies of Egalitarianism 42
 
3 Early Human History (to 3000 bce) 53
 
Early Hominids 54
 
Homo Sapiens 58
 
Paleolithic Society and Spirituality 61
 
Domestication 66
 
Agricultural Societies 68
 
The Origins of Patriarchy 72
 
4 Ancient Cities and States (3000 bce-600 bce) 85
 
Cities and Social Hierarchies 86
 
Writing 91
 
Families and Households 96
 
Work 103
 
Religions in the Ancient Near East 106
 
Hereditary Dynasties and Female Rulers 111
 
5 Classical Cultures (500 bce-500 ce) 120
 
Family Life in the Classical Cultures of Eurasia 121
 
Sexuality in Classical Eurasia 127
 
Philosophy and Religion in East Asia: Confucianism and Daoism 130
 
Religious Traditions of South Asia: Hinduism and Buddhism 132
 
Religious Traditions in the Mediterranean: Christianity 139
 
Education and Culture 143
 
6 The Middle Millennium (500 ce-1500 ce) 153
 
Families, Households, and Kin in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific 154
 
Religious Traditions Transmitted Orally 158
 
State Based Societies in the Americas 162
 
Courts and Courtly Culture 164
 
The Rise and Spread of Islam 168
 
Europe and the Mediterranean 174
 
Cities and the Gendering of Work 177
 
7 The Early Modern World (1500 ce-1800 ce) 184
 
Economic Developments 185
 
The Renaissance 191
 
Religious Transformations 197
 
Families and Race 200
 
Representations of Conquest and Colonialization 206
 
Women and Politics 208
 
8 The Modern World (1800 ce-2021 ce) 220
 
Industrialization 221
 
Imperialism 227
 
Nineteenth-century Movements for Social Change 229
 
Modern Sexuality 236
 
Wars, Revolutions, and Political Change 243
 
The Industrial and Postindustrial Economy 251
 
Families in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 258
 
Cultural Changes in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 264
 
Afterword 277
 
Index 282

About the author

MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is an esteemed historian whose work has been central to the integration of women, gender, and sexuality into the study of early modern Europe and World/Global History. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have been published in numerous languages.

Summary

A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout

Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world's cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this comprehensive volume discusses the ways families, religions, social hierarchies, politics, work, education, art, sexuality, and other issues are linked to various conceptions of gender.

Now organized chronologically rather than topically, this extensively revised edition presents a wealth of up-to-date information based on the scholarship of the last decade. New and expanded chapters offer insights on the connections between gender and key events and trends in world history, including domestication and the development of agriculture, the growth of cities and larger-scale political structures, the spread of world religions, changing ideas of race, class, and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, capitalism, wars, revolutions, and more. Written by a distinguished scholar in the field of women's and gender history, this third edition of Gender in History:
* Examines how gender roles were shaped by family life, religious traditions, various other institutions, and how the institutions were influenced by gender
* Considers why gender variations developed in different cultures and in diverse social, ethnic, and racial groups within a single culture
* Addresses ideas in different cultures that shaped both informal societal norms and formalized laws
* Explores debates about the origins of patriarchy, the development of complex gender hierarchies, and contemporary movements for social change
* Discusses the gender implications of modern issues including the global pandemic and ongoing cultural and economic shifts
* Includes an accessible introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues and an instructor's website site with visual and written original sources

Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as those on women's history, women in world history, and gender in world history, and a valuable supplement for general survey courses within History and Women's and Gender Studies programs.

Product details

• Authors: Me Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. (University of Wisconsin-M Wiesner-Hanks
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2021
• EAN: 9781119719205
• ISBN: 978-1-119-71920-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Weltgeschichte, Soziologie, Geschichte, History, Sociology, world history, Gender & Sexuality, Geschlecht u. Sexualität, Historische Geschlechterforschung, Gender & History