Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1 / Edition 1

by Bonnie G. Smith, Margaret Strobel, Alice Kessler-Harris, Mrinalini Sinha

Overview

The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. Volume 1 of the three-volume series addresses the comparative themes that the editors and contributors see as central to understanding women's history around the world. Authors like Margaret Strobel, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Mrinalini Sinha provide overviews of the theory and practice of women's and gender history and analyze family history, nationalism, and work. Editor Bonnie G. Smith rounds out the collection with essays on religion, race, ethnicity, and the different varieties of feminism. 

Authoritative and wide-ranging, Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1, offers an invaluable resource on the thought and methods of a generation's leading figures in feminist scholarship. 

Contributors: Marjorie Bingham, Julia Clancy-Smith, Susan Kent, Alice Kessler-Harris, Mary Jo Maynes, Pamela Scully, Mrinalini Sinha, Margaret Strobel, and Ann B. Waltner

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252071836
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	09/10/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.
 

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1	The Theory and Practice of Women's History and Gender History in Global Perspective	9
2	Family History as World History	48
3	Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity	92
4	Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global, Historical Overview	145
5	Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective	195
6	Gender and Nation	229
7	Worlds of Feminism	275
	Contributors	313
	Index	317

Editorial 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

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