A Companion to Gender History

Teresa A. Meade · Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

เม.ย. 2008 · John Wiley & Sons

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A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years.

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• An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years.
  
• Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history.
  
• Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies.
  
• Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays.
  
• Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era.
  
• Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.

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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).