ISBN: 0470692820 9780470692820

Category: Social Science / Gender Studies

Page count: 688

<i>A Companion to Gender History</i> surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. <br><ul><li><br></li><li>An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years.<br></li><li>Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history.<br></li><li>Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies.<br></li><li>Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays.<br></li><li>Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era.<br></li><li>Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.</li></ul>