A Companion to Gender History
Teresa A. Meade
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Description for A Companion to Gender History
Paperback. * 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. Series: Blackwell Companions to History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1140.
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 ... Read more
- 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to History
Number of Pages
690
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405149600
SKU
V9781405149600
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99-50
About Teresa A. Meade
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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Gender History
“This book is a reference masterpiece … [with] clear and comprehensible writing. The authors … present a truly global study.” Reference Reviews