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A COMPANION TO
GLOBAL GENDER
HISTORY
SECOND EDITION
Edited by
Teresa A. Meade and
Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
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Names: Meade, Teresa A., 1948– editor. | Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952– editor.
Title: A companion to global gender history / edited by Teresa A. Meade and
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Series: Blackwell
companions to world history | Revised edition of A companion to gender
history, 2004. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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9781119535805 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119535782 (adobe pdf) | ISBN
9781119535829 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex role–History. | Gender identity–History. | Sex
role–Cross-cultural studies. | Gender identity–Cross-cultural studies. |
Feminist theory.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
About the Editors xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
Part I thematIc essays on Gender Issues In World hIstory
1 Sexuality 11
Robert A. Nye
2 Gender and Labor in World History 27
Laura Levine Frader
3 Structures and Meanings in a Gendered Family History 43
Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
4 The Construction of Gendered Identities in Myth and Ritual 59
Darlene M. Juschka
5 Gender Rules: Law and Politics 75
Susan Kingsley Kent
6 Race, Gender, and Other Differences in Feminist Theory 93
Deirdre Keenan, with Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
7 Gender and Material Culture History 109
Meha Priyadarshini
8 How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity
in the Visual Arts 129
Mary D. Sheriff, with Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
vi contents
9 Gender, Revolution, and Anti‐Imperialism 151
Patricia Acerbi
10 Feminist Movements: Gender and Sexual Equality 165
Barbara Winslow
Part II chronoloGIcal and GeoGraPhIcal essays
Early Societies (100,000 bce–1400 ce)
11 Gender in the Earliest Human Societies 187
Marcia‐Anne Dobres
12 Gendered Themes in Early African History 205
Raevin Jimenez
13 Women and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures 221
Bella Vivante
14 Confucian Complexities: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan 239
Vivian‐Lee Nyitray
15 Toward Engendering Early Histories of the Indian Subcontinent:
Consolidating Insights and Continuing Challenges 253
Kumkum Roy
16 Gender in the Ancient Americas: From Earliest Villages
to European Colonization 269
Rosemary A. Joyce
17 Medieval Europe 285
Kate Kelsey Staples
Gender in Early Modern Society (1400–1750)
18 Gender, Science, and Medicine in the Early Modern World 303
Meghan K. Roberts
19 Bringing the Gender History of Early Modern Southeast Asia
into Global Conversations 319
Barbara Watson Andaya
20 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East 335
Amy Kallander
21 Did Gender Have a Renaissance? Reconsidering Categories
in Early Modern Western Europe 351
Julie Hardwick
22 The Atlantic World 367
Allyson M. Poska and Susan D. Amussen
contents vii
Gender in the Modern World (1750–1920)
23 New Global Imperialism 385
Utsa Ray
24 Women’s and Gender History in the Middle East and North Africa,
1750–World War I 399
Judith E. Tucker
25 Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914 415
Marcia Wright
26 Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and
Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand 431
Nupur Chaudhuri
27 From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor, and
the State in East Asia, 1600–1919 445
Anne Walthall
28 Gender, Power, and Society in Western Europe, 1750–1914 461
Deborah Simonton
29 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1750–1914 479
Christine D. Worobec
30 Turbulent Times: Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean,
1750–World War I 495
Sonya Lipsett‐Rivera
31 North America from North of the 49th Parallel 509
Linda Kealey
Gender in the Contemporary World (1920–2020)
32 Feminism and Gender Construction in Modern Asia 527
Barbara Molony
33 African Women since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status 545
Sean Redding
34 The Gender of Modernization and the Modernization of Gender:
Latin America and the Caribbean since 1914 561
Jocelyn Olcott
35 Gender in Russia and Eastern Europe since World War I 577
Karen Petrone
36 Equality and Difference in the West since World War I:
North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand 593
Charles Sowerwine, with Patricia Grimshaw
Index 613
List of Figures
7.1 Sylvia Plath’s yellow checked dress, with label “Made in U.S.A.
for Harrods, London,” 1950s 110
7.2 Court cupboard owned by Hannah Barnard, 1710–20 114
7.3 Pair of bridal lotus shoes, Zhejiang and Jiangsu style,
early twentieth century 116
7.4 Robert Feke, Anne Shippen Willing (Mrs. Charles Willing), 1746 117
7.5 Gown made in the “Eastern” style with Chinese export silk, 1760–70 120
7.6 Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British, Dr. Charles
Chauncey, M.D., 1747 121
7.7 Advertisement for a safety bicycle in England, 1887 123
7.8 A pair of lace‐bark slippers, Jamaica, c. 1827 123
7.9 Anthropomorphic ceramic pot, early twentieth century,
Democratic Republic of Congo 124
8.1 Paula Modersohn‐Becker, Selbstbildnis als Halbakt
Baernsteinkette II, 1906 131
8.2 Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653/3), Self Portrait as La Pittura. 135
8.3 Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Walking in the Dusk 139
8.4 Jean‐Marc Nattier, Madame de Caumartin as Hebe, 1753 140
About the Editors
Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Gender Studies Emerita at the University
Professor of History and Culture, Union of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-
College, Schenectady, New York. She has time senior editor of the Sixteenth Century
focused on integrating issues of gender Journal, former editor of the Journal of
and ethnicity into the Latin American his- Global History, and the editor-in-chief of
torical narrative as a teacher of undergrad- the seven-volume Cambridge World
uate students and author of A History of History. She is the author or editor of
Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present thirty books and many articles that have
(2009, 2016) and A Brief History of appeared in English, German, French,
Brazil (2002, 2009). In addition to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek,
authoring and editing other books and Chinese, Turkish, and Korean, and are
journals, she is a member of the Editorial widely used in teaching around the world,
Collective of Radical History Review and including Gender in History: Global
former president of the Board of Trustees Perspectives and Women and Gender in
of The Journal of Women’s History. Early Modern Europe. Her research has
been supported by grants from the
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations,
Professor of History and Women’s and among others.
Contributors
Patricia Acerbi teaches history at George the co‐editor of a number of books,
Washington University and through the including: with Margaret Strobel, Western
Clemente Course in the Humanities at Women and Imperialism: Complicity and
Bard College. She is the author of Street Resistance (1992), with Ruth Roach
Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Pierson, Nation, Empire, Colony: Critical
Janeiro, 1850–1925 (2017) and a number Categories of Gender and Race Analysis
of journal articles and book chapters. (1998), with Eileen Boris, Voices of
Women Historians: Personal, Professional
Susan D. Amussen is Professor of
and Political (1999), and with Sherry
History at the University of California,
Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry,
Merced. She is the author of An Ordered
Contesting Archives: Finding Women in
Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern
the Sources (2010).
England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges:
Slavery and the Transformation of English Marcia‐Anne Dobres is Lecturer in
Society (2007); and (with David Anthropology at the University of
Underdown) Gender, Culture and Southern Maine. She is the author of
Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning Technology and Social Agency (2000) and
the World Upside Down (2017). has co‐edited Agency in Archaeology
Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor (2000) and The Social Dynamics of
in the Asian Studies Program at the Technology (1999). She is currently inves-
University of Hawai’i. A historian by tigating the social technology of Ice Age
training, her most recent books are The cave art in the French Pyrénées (c. 14,000
years ago) to understand its role in facili-
Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in
Southeast Asian History, 1500–1800 tating the negotiation of gender and
(2006) and A History of Early Modern social agency.
Southeast Asia (2016). She is General
Laura Levine Frader is Professor of
Editor of the new Cambridge History of
History at Northeastern University, and
Southeast Asia and is working on a book
was the holder of the first Gender
on gender in sexuality in Southeast Asia
Equality Chair at the Université de
from early times to the present.
Sorbonne Paris Cité (USCP). Her publi-
Nupur Chaudhuri is Professor of cations include Gender and Class in
History at Texas Southern University. Modern Europe, co‐edited with Sonya
She is the author of many articles, and O. Rose, (1996), and Breadwinners and
