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Informationen zum Autor Teresa A. Meade is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Women's Studies at Union College, New York. She is the author of " Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City (1997), A Brief History of Brazil (2003), and is working on a project on marriage on the Alta California frontier, 1769-1860. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her recent books include Gender in History ( Blackwell, 2001), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (1993), iscovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (1997), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (1999). Klappentext A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. It contains both thematic essays, which demonstrate how gender has intersected with other historical topics, and chronological-geographic essays, which explore gender in one area of the world during a specific period. All the essays consider the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race, and religion to the formation of gendered societies. The contributions are written by scholars from across the world, including Canada, Britain, Australia, India, New Zealand, and the United States, as well as by scholars for whom English is not their first language. One of the key points to emerge from the volume as a whole is that no generalization about gender has applied to all times or all places. Zusammenfassung * An extensive survey of the history of women around the world! their interaction with men! and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. * Discusses family history! the history of the body and sexuality! and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates viii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Part I Thematic essays on Gender Issues in World History 1 Sexuality 11 Robert A. Nye 2 Gender and Labor in World History 26 Laura Levine Frader 3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 51 Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 4 Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks 70 Ursula King 5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 86 Susan Kingsley Kent 6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 110 Deirdre Keenan 7 Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling 129 Pavla Miller 8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts 146 Mary D. Sheriff 9 Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism 170 Temma Kaplan 10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 186 Barbara Winslow Part II Chronological and Geographical Essays Prehistory 11 Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies 211 Marcia-Anne Dobres Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 bce-1400 ce) 12 Women in the Middle East, 8000 bce to 1700 ce 229 Guity Nashat 13 Gendered Themes in Early African History 249 David Schoenbrun 14 Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 273 Vivian-Lee Nyitray 15 Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean 285 Paul Halsall 16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization 305 Rosemary A. Joyce Gender and the Development of Modern Society (1400-1750) 17 Ge...
