Companion to Global Gender History

Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives

This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions.

Filled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further.

• Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays
• Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality
• Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world

A Companion to Global Gender History is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field.

Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture Emerita at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She has focused on integrating issues of gender and ethnicity into the Latin American historical narrative through her teaching and her books, including: A History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present and A Brief History of Brazil, among others. A biography of a woman involved in the sanctuary movement entitled, We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Survival and Activism from Poland to California, is forthcoming. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, former president of the Board of Trustees of The Journal of Women's History, and recipient of grants from Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal, former editor of the Journal of Global History, and the editor-in-chief of the seven-volume Cambridge World History. She is the author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean, and are widely used in teaching around the world, including Gender in History: Global Perspectives and Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.