edited by Bonnie G. Smith
contributions by Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Nikki R Keddie, Barbara Engel, Asunción Lavrin, Ellen Dubois, Judith P. Zinsser and Bonnie S Anderson
University of Illinois Press, 2005
Paper: 978-0-252-07234-5 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02990-5
Library of Congress Classification HQ1121W88585 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.409

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The concluding volume of Women's History in Global Perspective discusses contemporary trends in gender and women's history. Bonnie G. Smith edits essays that include women and gender in the history of sub-Saharan Africa and Middle Eastern women since the rise of Islam. Other contributors offer a transnational approach to women in early and modern Europe; look at women's history in Russia and the Soviet Union; discuss the national period in Latin American women's history; and provide a global perspective on women in North American history after 1865. 


Contributors: Bonnie S. Anderson, Ellen Dubois, Barbara Engel, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Nikki R. Keddie, Asunción Lavrin, and Judith P. Zinsser