Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 2

by Bonnie G. Smith (Editor), Sarah Hughes (Contribution by), Brady Hughes (Contribution by), Susan Mann (Contribution by), Barbara N Ramusack (Contribution by)

Overview

In Volume 2 of Women's History in Global Perspective, Bonnie G. Smith curates more essays by pioneering thinkers on issues that have shaped the history of women, this time with a focus on particular places and particular eras. The collection examines women from prehistory to ancient civilizations in Egypt, Israel, India, and beyond; a survey of women history in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the United States to 1865. 

Inclusive and wide-ranging, Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 2, offers an invaluable collection of feminist scholarship on overlooked and marginalized topics. 

Contributors: Judith M. Bennett, Kathleen Brown, Brady Hughes, Sarah Shaver Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, and Ann Twinam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252072499
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	06/14/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bonnie G. Smith is the Board of Governors Professor of History and director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France and many other books.
 

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1	The Theory and Practice of Women's History and Gender History in Global Perspective	9
2	Family History as World History	48
3	Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity	92
4	Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global, Historical Overview	145
5	Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective	195
6	Gender and Nation	229
7	Worlds of Feminism	275
	Contributors	313
	Index	317

Editorial Reviews

"The vast new evidence of our global connectedness has revived the imperative to understand the world better and especially to bring into focus the worldwide history of women. These volumes are devoted to surveying the most recent findings on women and gender in hopes of bringing teachers at all levels a practical introduction to the new data, historical issues, and historiographical debates from all regions of the world."—Bonnie G. Smith, from the Introduction to Volume 1

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