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 Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her recent books include Gender in History (Blackwell, 2001), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (1993), iscovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence (1997), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (1999).

• List of Plates viiiContributors ixIntroduction 1Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-HanksPart I Thematic essays on Gender Issues in World History1 Sexuality 11Robert A. Nye2 Gender and Labor in World History 26Laura Levine Frader3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 51Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks4 Religion and Gender: Embedded Patterns, Interwoven Frameworks 70Ursula King5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 86Susan Kingsley Kent6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 110Deirdre Keenan7 Gender and Education Before and After Mass Schooling 129Pavla Miller8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts 146Mary D. Sheriff9 Revolution, Nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism 170Temma Kaplan10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 186Barbara WinslowPart II Chronological and Geographical EssaysPrehistory11 Gender in the Formation of the Earliest Human Societies 211Marcia-Anne DobresClassical and Post-Classical Societies (2000 bce–1400 ce)12 Women in the Middle East, 8000 bce to 1700 ce 229Guity Nashat13 Gendered Themes in Early African History 249David Schoenbrun14 Confucian Complexities: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 273Vivian-Lee Nyitray15 Early Western Civilization Under the Sign of Gender: Europe and the Mediterranean 285Paul Halsall16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages to European Colonization 305Rosemary A. JoyceGender and the Development of Modern Society (1400–1750)17 Gender History, Southeast Asia, and the "World Regions" Framework 323Barbara Watson Andaya18 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe 343Julie Hardwick19 Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe 358Nancy Shields Kollmann20 A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires 371Verena StolckeGender and the Modern World (1750–1920)21 Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa 393Judith Tucker22 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914 413Marcia Wright23 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia 430Nupur Chaudhuri24 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the State in East Asia, 1600–1919 444Anne Walthall25 Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750–1914 459Deborah Valenze26 Latin America and the Caribbean 477Sonya Lipsett-Rivera27 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 492Linda KealeyGender in the Contemporary World (1920–2003)28 Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia 513Barbara Molony29 Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 540Sean Redding30 Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe 555Barbara Evans Clements31 Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean 568Susan K. Besse32 Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 586Charles Sowerwine with Patricia GrimshawBibliography 611Index 654

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