Debates and ancient ways of life: from prehistory to C. 600 CE. Expanding institutions, consolidating gendered order: C. 600 CE to 1450. From the violence of empire to the hope of revolution. From industry and empires to our contemporary world.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part III. Conceptualizing Brahmanical patriarchy in early India: gender, caste, class and state / Part I. Theories and ideas. Defining Black feminist thought / Uma Chakravarti -- On the critiques of the concept of sex. An interview with Anne Fausto-Sterling / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Fantasy echo: hsitory and the construction of identity -- From patriarchy to intersectionality: a transnational feminist assessment of how far we've really come / Vrushali Patil -- Bodies with new organs: becoming trans, becoming disabled / Jasbir K. Puar -- Part II. Women and gender in prehistory and early societies: Women's work / Carolyn Graves-Brown -- Sex and marriage in Ancient Egypt / Janet H. Johnson -- Women's rights / Jen Bottéro -- Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Horses and gender in Korea: the legacy of the steppe on the edge of Asia / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Amazons in the Scythia: new finds at the Middle Don, Southern Russia / V.I. Guliaev -- Part III. Classical worlds: Daily activity / Dorothy Watts -- Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial perspectives / Stéphane Bemoist -- The modest mouth / Kate Wilkinson -- Conceptualizing Brahmanical patriarchy in early India: gender, caste, class and state / Uma Chakravarti -- Part III. Emotions and self-cultivation in Nü Lunyu (Women's Analects) / Part I. Rulers and the ways of power: Autonomous queenship in Cambodia, between first and ninth centuries AD / Terry Tak-Ling Woo -- War against women / Jack Mciver Weatherford -- Rethinking the imperial harem / Patricia B. Ebrey -- Gender in early classical Japan: marriage, leadership, and political status in village and palace / Yoshie Akiko -- The Aztecs and the ideology of male dominance / June Nash -- Part II. Kinship, networks, and economies: Anxieties of attachment: the dynamics of courtship in Medieval India / Daud Ali -- "A daughter is a daughter all her life": affinal relations and women's networks in song and late imperial China / Beverly Bossier -- Women in the marketplace of Constantinople, between Tenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Algeliki E. Laiou -- Women and gender in Mamluk society: an overview / Yossef Rapoport -- Married partners and single women as producers and sellers / Shennan Hutton -- Part III. Bodies and beliefs: The Jesus hermaphrodite: science and sex difference in premodern Europe / Leah DeVan -- The material culture of childbirth in late Medieval London and its suburbs / Katherine French -- Eunuchs in historical perspectives / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Mirabai / John Stratton Hawley -- Emotions and self-cultivation in Nü Lunyu (Women's Analects) / Terry Tak-Ling Woo -- Part III. Republican friendship: Manuela Sáenz writes women into the nation, 1835-1856 / Part I. Empires and economies: Yacutec Maya women and the Spanish Conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Sarah C. Chambers -- Powhatan Indian women: the people Captain John Smith Barely saw / Helen C. Rountree -- The role of native women in the fur trade society of western Canada, 1670-1830 / Sylvia Van Kirk -- African food and the Atlantic crossing / Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff -- Work / Susan Mann -- Part II. Families, societies, identities: Women on top / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Residing with Begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their "wives" / Durba Ghosh -- The christened Mulatresses: Euro-African families in the slave-trading town / Pernille Ibsen -- Women's legal voice language, power, and gender performativity in late Chosŏn Korea / Jisoo M. Kim -- Learned and loving: representing women astronomers in Enlightenment France / Meghan K. Roberts -- Part III. States, power, resistance: Dode Akabi: a reexamination of the oral and textual narratives of a "Wicked" female king / Harry N.K. Odamtten -- Gender, the hat, the Quaker Universalism in the wake of the English Revolution / Krista Kesselring -- Gender transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia / Evelyn Blackwood -- Nancy Ward: American patriot and Cherokee Nationalist? / Michelene E. Pesantubbee -- Republican friendship: Manuela Sáenz writes women into the nation, 1835-1856 / Sarah C. Chambers -- Part III. Immigrant voices in cyberspace: spinning continental and diasporic Africans into the Worldwide Web / Part I. Empires, sexuality, and everyday life: Circular reasoning: recentering Cherokee women in the antiremoval campaigns / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Uncovering women and gender in Qajar archives in Iran / Mansoureh Ettehadieh (Nezam Mafi), Elham Malekzadeh, Maryam Ameli-Rezael, and Janet Afary -- Tattoed secrets: women's history Magude District, southern Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach -- Randy on the rand: Portuguese African labor and the discourse on "Unnatural vice" in the Transvaal in the Twentieth Century / Ross G. Forman -- Memsahibs and health in Colonia medical writings, c.1840 toc.1930 / Indrani Sen -- Part II. Representations, activism, and feminism: A genealogy of Vendidas / Catherine Ramirez -- Reporting on Madame Nhu in the Viet Nam War: representations of the gendered other / Diem-My T. Bui -- Rethinking "the Filipino woman": a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces -- Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil -- Gains and losses, 1991-2010 / Barbara Evans Clements -- Part III. Technologies and contemporary life: "We pray like you have fun": new Islamic youth in Turkey between intellectualism and popular culture / Ayşe Saktanber -- Lesbians online: queer identity and community formations in the French Minitel / Tamara Chaplin -- Mobile communications and labor politics / Cara Wallis -- "An unnamed blank that craved a name": a genealogy of intersex as gender / david A. Rubin -- Immigrant voices in cyberspace: spinning continental and diasporic Africans into the Worldwide Web / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
Summary:
Collating scholarly historical texts on the subject from the last 50 years from a wide range of sources, this four-volume set offers a key knowledge resource for the field. Arranged chronologically in terms of the time period studied for ease of use, the four volumes assemble around 100 essays and papers from the pioneering pieces published in the 1960s and 1970s through to the landmark texts of the recent past and present. There is a global scope and Gender History: Critical Readings gives crucial insights into how the field was formed, how it developed and into how gender history will be studied in the future. Volume 1 explores gender history concerned with antiquity through to the year 600 CE and pays particular attention to issues of work, politics, religion and gender roles. Volume 2 traces gender history's arc in the field of medieval history, with coverage of topics like domesticity, women's networks and social status. Volume 3 considers the early modern world and the significance of imperialism in relation to gender history. Volume 4 covers the modern world through to the present day, with material on nation states, activism and the changing nature of society. Each volume includes a substantial contextualizing introduction surveying the development of the field.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.