Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective
Series Edited by Bonnie Smith
The series will provide overviews of fields from women's, gender, and global history perspectives. The series will have pamphlets on geographic areas such as East Asia and on topical subjects such as nationalism. The intent is that such an overview would help teachers at all levels design courses, and provide global perspective on women's and gender history in the designated specialty field.
Women and Gender in Colonial Latin America
In this pamphlet, Twinam looks at women in the pre-colonial and colonial periods of Latin American history, focusing on issues of class, gender, and race amid both indigenous and European women.
Ann Twinam is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on colonial Spanish Latin American, focusing on gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, family, and race. Her projects, include a monograph on sexuality and illegitimacy in Spain from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries and one on the purchase of “whiteness” and racial mobility in the Spanish colonies. Publications include Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (1999) which won the Thomas F. McGann Prize and received honorable mention for the Bolton Prize, and Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (1982, 1985), as well as numerous articles. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Tinker Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Spain, and the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
2007. 64 pages
ISBN 0-87229-150-2
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Women and Gender in South and Southeast Asia
In this pamphlet, Ramusack examines the history of women in south and southeast Asia, looking beyond the exotic stereotypes—such as the self-sacrificing Hindu widows who performed sati, the delicate Javanese dancers, and occasionally the manipulative political actors—in an effort to further shape our understanding of the lived experience of Asian women.
Barbara N. Ramusack is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and has an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Three Fulbright Fellowships and grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Charles Phelps Taft Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution have supported her research in India and Britain. She has published numerous articles and essays on the princely states of India and on women in India during the late colonial period. Her more recent publications are Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (1999), coauthored with Sharon Sievers, and The Princes of India for The New Cambridge History of India (2003).
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-149-9S
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Latin American Women’s History: The National Period
This work covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and examines key themes in the historiography of women as full participants in the process of nation building. Attention is given to the availability of sources for studying the experience of women across class and race and the collective experience of women engaged in labor and political activism. The role of ideological forces shaping state policies and social movements remains central in understanding theoretical approaches to the study of women and gender relations throughout the national period, and the incorporation of recent trends in the study of sexuality indicates the broadening agenda of the field.
Asunción Lavrin, a professor of history at Arizona State University, holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has received several NEH fellowships and a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship. The author of thirty-eight articles in journals and thirty-six chapters in books, she has published Monjas y beatas: Las escritutra femenina en la espiritualided barroca novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII (coedited with Rosalva Loreto); Women, Feminism, and Social Change in the Southern Cone 1890–1940; Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America; and Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives. Lavrin’s books and articles have received three academic prizes. She is the past president of the Conference on Latin American History and director of two National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-154-5
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History of Women in the United States to 1865
Brown's pamphlet explores what the history of women in the United States from a global perspective. This essay moves chronologically and thematically from the point at which Native American women'’s "global" networks begin to include Europeans to the rise of a Euro-American female population whose labor, consumption of material goods, and participation in print culture made them part of global processes even as they continued to develop ever-stronger ties to local communities. It also examines the paths by which West African women became part of the plantation economies and communities of southern colonies and then analyzes the group of women who would seem least susceptible to being studied from a global perspective—native-born white women whose daily household relations and extra-local concerns reveal identities that are the product of global processes.
Kathleen Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches comparative women’s history and early American history. She is the author of Good Wives: Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996). She is completing a book on the history of cleanliness in the early United States.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-151-0
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Women and Gender in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, Johnson-Odim deconstructs the concept of "women" by examining the several identities of women in sub-Saharan Africa cultures as they have changed over time, and had great importance in the lives of women in Africa.
Cheryl Johnson-Odim holds a doctorate in history from Northwestern University and is dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor of history at Columbia College Chicago. A past member of the board of directors of the African Studies Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, she is also on the board of directors of the Illinois Humanities Council and the editorial board of the Journal of Women’s History. Johnson-Odim was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria and has published frequently in learned journals and written chapters in edited collections, among them For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti of Nigeria (with Nina Mba). Along with Marjorie Strobel, she is coeditor of the four-volume collection Restoring Women to History: Women in Asia; Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Women in the Middle East.
2007. 72 pages
ISBN 0-87229-152-9
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Women in the Middle East
Since the Rise of Islam
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, this pamphlet discusses women in the Middle East since the rise of Islam in the early seventh century c.e., starting with the Near East before the rise of Islam, as many features of Islamic times arose not from Arabia but from pre-Islamic civilizations that were early conquered by Muslim armies. The change from a tribal society in Arabia to one with a state and written laws also altered the position of women. Their roles in the Middle East after the Islamic conquests reflected pre-Islamic Near Eastern and Arab cultures modified to meet the needs, laws, and customs of new Islamic states and societies as well as a variety of times, places, and religious and other ideas.
Nikkie R. Keddie is professor emerita of history, University of California at Los Angeles, has written numerous books and articles. Among her seven single-authored books are Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution, and An Islamic Response to Imperialism. Among her edited or coedited books are Women in Middle Eastern History and Women in the Muslim World. She was founding editor of the journal, Contention, and a selection of her work on women was published in 2004. Keddie graduated from Radcliff College and received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has had numerous national fellowships and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her lifetime achievement awards include the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association, the Mentoring Award of the Middle East Studies Association, and the Persian History Award of the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-153-7
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The Theory and Practice of Women’s History and Gender History in Global Perspective
and Marjorie BinghamAimed at helping students understand the complex dynamic between women’s history and gender history, Strobel and Bingham present a synthesis of the historiography of both, and place them within the larger concept of world history.
Margaret Stobel is interim director at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Marjorie Binham is one of the co-founders of the National Council for History Education and a senior consultant for the NEH project, "Women, World History, and the Web."
2006. 41 pages
ISBN 0-87229-138-3
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Family History As World History
and Mary Jo MaynesAs a method to study how "family" fits into the concept of world historical change, Waltner and Maynes examine the local and global dynamics of family history, and how it relates to world history.
Ann B. Waltner is professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
Mary Jo Maynes is professor and chair of history at the University of Minnesota.
2006. 48 pages
ISBN 0-87229-139-1
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Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global Historic Overview
In order to present a larger study of how human progress relates to gender, Kessler-Harris explores the historical role of "women’s work," and how it relates to gender and economics.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University.
2006. 54 pages
ISBN 0-87229-141-3
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Race and Ethnicity in Women’s and Gender History in Global Perspective
Scully studies the historiography of "race" and "ethnicity" as social constructs within the larger realm of women’s and gender history, and presents methods how to teach these concepts in the classroom.
Pamela Scully is an associate professor of Women's Studies/African Studies at Emory University.
2006. 36 pages
ISBN 0-87229-142-1
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Worlds of Feminism
Looking at its western origins and beyond, Kent examines the wider historiography of the concept of "feminism," and how it operated with in the social institutions of the world.
Susan Kingsley Kent is professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
2006. 41 pages
ISBN 0-87229-145-6
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Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
from Late Antiquity
to the Eve of Modernity
Julia Clancy-Smith re-examines the often misunderstood roles that women and gender have historically in shaping three of the world's main religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Isalm—viewed through the prism of narratives about sacred journey and pilgrimages.
Julia Clancy-Smith is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has published Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904) (1994), which received three book awards; was co-editor of Domesticating the Empire: Gender, Race, and Family Life in the Dutch and French Empires (1998); and has been editor of North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean World from the Almoravids to the Algerian War (2001). She is co-editing a special issue of French Historical Studies devoted to the French Empire and completing a book on trans-Mediterranean settlement in nineteenth-century North Africa. She has another book underway on colonial education for girls in French North Africa. Her extended essay in comparative women/gender history and colonial cultures, “European Imperialism and Colonial Knowledge on Women in Islamic Cultures, c. 1750–1900,” is part of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures edited by Suad Joseph.
2006. 56 pages
ISBN 0-87229-140-5
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Gender and Nation
Gender and Nation is a brief historiographical overview of the contemporary scholarship on gender and the nation, an evaluation of how this scholarship provides new ways of conceiving the concepts of masculinity and femininity within the nation, and reflections on future developments of these concepts.
Mrinalini Sinha is an associate professor of history and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman"and the "Effeminate Bengali" and Katherine Mayo's Mother India.
2005. 48 pages
ISBN 0-87229-143-X
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Women in Early Modern and Modern Europe
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Zinsser and Anderson compare women's experiences across traditional European eras and political boundaries. New scholarship and web sites offer resources on global topics, including the European diaspora and hegemony, economic systems, and international feminism.
2001.
ISBN 0-87229-123-5
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Women in Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia
The essay surveys the major trends in the history of Russia's women from the 18th to the late twentieth century—beginning with Peter the Great's thoroughgoing transformation of the lives of elite women, and concluding with the anti-feminist backlash of the post-Soviet era— explores the impact of government efforts on women to manipulate gender relations and hierarchies as a means to other ends on women; and examines the ways that the state's opponents incorporated gender into their own strategies of resistance.
1999.
ISBN 0-87229-108-1
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East Asia (China, Japan,Korea)
The absence of women and of gender as a category of analysis in standard histories of East Asia has become more than a simple problem of historiographic omission. Instead, it reinforces cultural stereotypes that a broad education ought to challenge. At worst, it invites students and teachers to think that women in East Asia have been oppressed, silenced, suborned, or marginalized more than they were in Euro-North America.
By using materials in this pamphlet to integrate women and children into historical narratives, teachers humanize and familiarize people and places that students may otherwise be inclined to treat as backward, remote, or exotic. And by showing how gender relations are constructed in historical context, teachers help students to develop a culturally informed understanding of value systems different from their own—enhancing students' ability to communicate respectfully with one another - and to read about other cultures—in their own diverse society and in the global environment they now inhabit.
1999
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Medieval Women in Modern Perspective
Medieval Women in Modern Perspective is designed as a handbook for teachers who wish to cover medieval women in their courses. It discusses issues commonly encountered in the classroom: how historians have conceptualized the field in the past and present; what sorts of differences distinguished medieval women from each other; changes and continuities in women's status during the Middle Ages and beyond; and ideologies of gender in the Middle Ages. It also gives advice on how to use concrete examples and biographies to help students think creatively about such specific issues as women and religion, the veneration of female virginity, misogyny, abortion and birth control, female mysticism, women's work, lesbian sexualities, masculinities, and motherhood. Focusing exclusively on English-language materials, it includes extensive references in the notes (where readers can find guidance on such specific subjects) and in an annotated general bibliography.
2000
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United States after 1865
The history of women in the United States since 1865 reveals several important unifying themes: women's increasing participation in paid labor outside the home and the changes this shift brought about in family life; women's expanding desires and struggles to take control over their reproductive and sexual lives; and the steady aspiration of women to gain entry into and influence over electoral politics. But in order to present a sufficiently nuanced and situated history of women in the U.S. through this period, these unifying processes must be considered together with other forces that shaped women's lives. Throughout American history, the differences among women, who represent the full racial, religious, socio-economic and ethnic spectrum of American life, have been as significant as the similarities, and never more so than in this period of great population expansion and diversification. Furthermore, women were affected by political, demographic, economic, and cultural developments shaping American society as a whole: especially the abolition of slavery, industrialization, urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of consumer culture, and the social upheavals of the last thirty-five years of the twentieth century. Making these connections links what we learn about women's past to what we know about this nation's history more broadly.
2000
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