Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 3

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

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

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

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Bonnie G. Smith is the Board of Governors Professor of History and director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France and many other books.

REVIEWS

"The vast new evidence of our global connectedness has revived the imperative to understand the world better and especially to bring into focus the worldwide history of women. These volumes are devoted to surveying the most recent findings on women and gender in hopes of bringing teachers at all levels a practical introduction to the new data, historical issues, and historiographical debates from all regions of the world."--Bonnie G. Smith, from the Introduction to Volume 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
 
 Introduction
 Bonnie Smith
 1. The Theory and Practice of Women's and Gender
 History in
 Global Perspective
 Margaret Strobel and Marjorie Bingham
 2. Family History as World History
 Ann B. Waltner and Mary Jo Maynes
 3. Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and
 Gender in
 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity
 to the
 Eve of Modernity
 Julia Clancy-Smith
 4. Gender and Nation
 Mrinalini Sinha
 5. Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in
 Global
 Perspective
 Pamela Scully
 6. Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global,
 Historical
 Overview
 Alice Kessler-Harris
 7. Worlds of Feminism
 Susan Kent
 Contributors
 Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women History

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