ABOUT THIS BOOK

In Volume 2 of Women's History in Global Perspective, Bonnie G. Smith curates more essays by pioneering thinkers on issues that have shaped the history of women, this time with a focus on particular places and particular eras. The collection examines women from prehistory to ancient civilizations in Egypt, Israel, India, and beyond; a survey of women history in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the United States to 1865.

Inclusive and wide-ranging, Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 2, offers an invaluable collection of feminist scholarship on overlooked and marginalized topics.

Contributors: Judith M. Bennett, Kathleen Brown, Brady Hughes, Sarah Shaver Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, and Ann Twinam.

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