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.

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.
* * 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.

List of Plates viii

Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Part I Thematic essays on Gender Issues in WorldHistory

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 Frameworks70
Ursula King

5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 86
Susan Kingsley Kent

6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory110
Deirdre Keenan

7 Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling 129
Pavla Miller

8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in theVisual 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 Societies211
Marcia-Anne Dobres

Classical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 bce-1400ce)

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 Vietnam273
Vivian-Lee Nyitray

15 Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europeand the Mediterranean 285
Paul Halsall

16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages toEuropean 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 inEarly Modern Western Europe 343
Julie Hardwick

19 Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and EasternEurope 358
Nancy Shields Kollmann

20 A New World Engendered: The Making of the IberianTransatlantic Empires 371
Verena Stolcke

Gender and the Modern World (1750-1920)

21 Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges inWriting the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa393
Judith Tucker

22 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750-1914 413
Marcia Wright

23 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South andSoutheast Asia 430
Nupur Chaudhuri

24 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the Statein East Asia, 1600-1919 444
Anne Walthall

25 Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750-1914459
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 inTwentieth-Century Asia 513
Barbara Molony

29 Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as aDeterminant of Status 540
Sean Redding

30 Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements inTwentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe 555
Barbara Evans Clements

31 Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century LatinAmerica and the Caribbean 568
Susan K. Besse

32 Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: NorthAmerica, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 586
Charles Sowerwine with Patricia Grimshaw

Bibliography 611

Index 654