A Companion to Gender HistoryISBN: 978-1-4051-4960-0
Paperback
690 pages
June 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
- Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history and gender history.
- Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race and religion to the formation of gendered societies.
- Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays.
- Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as well as to the modern era.
- Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and scholars for whom English is not their first language.
