A Companion to Gender History

Teresa A. Meade 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2008년 04월 15일 출간

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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. 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. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race and religion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as well as to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and scholars for whom English is not their first language.

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List of Plates.Contributors.Introduction: Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Union College; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).Part I. Thematic Essays on Gender Issues in World History:.1. Sexuality: Robert A. Nye (Oregon State University).2. Gender and Labor in World History: Laura Levine Frader (Northeastern University).3. Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).4. Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks: Ursula King (University of Bristol).5. Gender Rules: Law and Politics: Susan Kinsley Kent (University of Colorado, Boulder).6. Race, Gender, and other Differences in Feminist Theory: Deirdre Keenan (Carroll College).7. Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling: Pavla Miller (RMIT in Melbourne).8. How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts: Mary D. Sheriff (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).9. Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism: Temma Kaplan (Rutgers University).10. Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality: Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York).Part II: Chronological and Geographical Essays:.Prehistory.11. Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies: Marcia-Anne Dobres (University of California, Berkeley).Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 BCE&~1400 CE).12. Women in the Middle East, 8000 BCE to 1700 CE: Guity Nashat (University of Illinois at Chicago).13. Gendered Themes in Early African History: David Schoenbrun (Northwestern University).14. Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam: Vivian-Lee Nyitray (University of California, Riverside).15. Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean, 40000 BCE to 1400 CE: Paul Halsall (University of North Florida).16. Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earlies

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저자(글) Teresa A. Meade

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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), Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (1997), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (1999).