Gender in History: Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Updated with new material to reflect the latest developments in the field, Gender in History : Global Perspectives, 2nd Edition, provides a concise overview of the construction of gender in world cultures from the Paleolithic era to modern times.

• Includes examples drawn from the most recent scholarship relating to a diverse range of cultures, from Ancient Mesopotamia to post-Soviet Russia, and from the Igbo of Nigeria, to the Iroquois of north eastern North America.
• Reflects new developments in the field with added coverage of primates, slavery, colonialism, masculinity, and transgender issues
• Features significant discussion of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, an important trend in the study of world history
• Lays out key theoretical and methodological issues in an introduction that is written in accessible language
• Supplementary material for instructors and students available at www.wiley.com/go/wiesnerhanks

✦ Table of Contents

GENDER IN HISTORY......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Chronological Table of Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 13
Sex and Gender......Page 14
Gender History and Theory......Page 18
Structure of the Book......Page 23
The Origins of Patriarchy......Page 25
2 The Family......Page 37
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (4000 BCE–600 BCE)......Page 39
The Classical Cultures of China, India, and the Mediterranean (600 BCE–500 CE)......Page 41
Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia in the Premodern Era (600 BCE–1600 CE)......Page 45
Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean (500 CE–1600 CE)......Page 48
The Colonial World (1500–1900)......Page 51
The Industrial and Postindustrial World (1800–2010)......Page 57
3 Economic Life......Page 67
Foraging, Horticultural, and Herding Societies (20,000 BCE–1800 CE)......Page 68
Agricultural Societies (7000 BCE–1800 CE)......Page 72
Slavery (7000 BCE–1900 CE)......Page 75
Capitalism and Industrialism (1500–2000)......Page 77
Corporations, the State, and the Service Economy (1900–2010)......Page 84
4 Ideas, Ideals, Norms, and Laws......Page 95
The Nature and Roles of Men and Women......Page 98
Binaries......Page 103
Motherhood and Fatherhood......Page 107
Ideologies, Norms, and Laws Prescribing Gender Inequity......Page 110
Ideologies of Egalitarianism......Page 112
5 Religion......Page 121
Animism, Shamanism, and Paganism (from 40,000 BCE)......Page 122
Written Religions in the Ancient Near East (from 3000 BCE)......Page 125
Confucianism and Taoism (from 600 BCE)......Page 127
Hinduism and Buddhism (from 600 BCE)......Page 129
Christianity (from 30 CE)......Page 133
Islam (from 600 CE)......Page 138
6 Political Life......Page 149
Kin Groups, Tribes, and Villages (from 10,000 BCE)......Page 151
Hereditary Aristocracies (from 3000 BCE)......Page 153
Warfare......Page 159
Citizenship (500 BCE–1800 CE)......Page 163
Women’s Rights Movements (1800–2010)......Page 167
Colonialism, Anticolonialism, and Postcolonialism (1500–2010)......Page 170
7 Education and Culture......Page 182
Classical and Postclassical Cultures (600 BCE–1450 CE)......Page 186
The Renaissance (1400–1600)......Page 190
Democracy, Modernity, and Literacy (1750–2010)......Page 194
8 Sexuality......Page 207
Classical Eurasia (600 BCE–600 CE)......Page 211
The Americas (500 CE–1500 CE)......Page 214
Third Genders......Page 216
The Colonial World: Sex and Race (1500–1900)......Page 218
Modern Sexuality in the West (1750–1950)......Page 221
The Globalized World (1950–2010)......Page 226
Afterword......Page 236
Index......Page 240