Table of Contents
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 Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the "World Regions" Framework 323 Barbara Watson Andaya
18 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe 343 Julie Hardwick
19 Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe 358 Nancy Shields Kollmann
20 A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires 371 Verena Stolcke
Gender and the Modern World (1750–1920)
21 Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa 393 Judith Tucker
22 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914 413 Marcia Wright
23 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia 430 Nupur Chaudhuri
24 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919 444 Anne Walthall
25 Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750–1914 459 Deborah Valenze
26 Latin America and the Caribbean 477 Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
27 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 492 Linda Kealey
Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2003)
28 Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia 513 Barbara Molony
29 Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 540 Sean Redding
30 Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe 555 Barbara Evans Clements
31 Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean 568 Susan K. Besse
32 Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 586 Charles Sowerwine with Patricia Grimshaw
Bibliography 611
Index 654
