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Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions. Filled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further. * Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays * Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality * Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world A Companion to Global Gender History is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field.

A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. 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.

Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives   This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior. It includes thematic essays that offer a broad foundation for key issues such as family, labor, sexuality, race, and material culture, followed by chronological and regional essays stretching from the earliest human societies to the contemporary period. The book offers readers a diverse selection of viewpoints from an authoritative team of international authors and reflects questions that have been explored in different cultural and historiographic traditions.   Filled with contributions from both scholars and teachers, A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition makes difficult concepts understandable to all levels of students. It presents evidence for complex assertions regarding gender identity, and grapples with evolving notions of gender construction. In addition, each chapter includes suggestions for further reading in order to provide readers with the necessary tools to explore the topic further.  Features newly updated and brand-new chapters filled with both thematic and chronological-geographic essays  Discusses recent trends in gender history, including material culture, sexuality, transnational developments, science, and intersectionality  Presents a diversity of viewpoints, with chapters by scholars from across the world  A Companion to Global Gender History is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students involved in gender studies and history programs. It will also appeal to more advanced scholars seeking an introduction to the field. 

Since we did not attempt to impose any kind of uniformity, the resulting articles take a variety of approaches in considering different subfields, bodies of scholarship, and approaches. [...]what we see are connections between, for example, imperialism and intimate relations, reproduction and politics, and sexuality and the state.

Meade reviews Labors Appropriate to the Their Sex: Gender, Labor and politics in Urban Chile by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform by Heidi Tinsman.

Meade reviews Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950 by Ann Zulawski.

Meade reviews \"Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940\" by Susan K. Besse.