Gender in History

<p><b>A concise&nbsp;yet comprehensive&nbsp;account&nbsp;of&nbsp;the roles&nbsp;and&nbsp;influences of&nbsp;gender&nbsp;over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></p> <p><i>Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition</i>,&nbsp;explores the construction and evolution of gender&nbsp;in&nbsp;many of the world&rsquo;s cultures&nbsp;from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century.&nbsp;Broad in geographic&nbsp;and topical scope, this comprehensive volume&nbsp;discusses&nbsp;the ways&nbsp;families, religions, social hierarchies, politics, work, education, art, sexuality, and other issues are linked to various conceptions of gender.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now organized chronologically rather than topically,&nbsp;this&nbsp;extensively revised edition&nbsp;presents&nbsp;a wealth of&nbsp;up-to-date&nbsp;information based on the scholarship of the last decade.&nbsp;New and expanded chapters offer insights on the connections between gender&nbsp;and key events&nbsp;and trends&nbsp;in world history,&nbsp;including&nbsp;domestication and the development of agriculture,&nbsp;the&nbsp;growth of cities and larger-scale political structures, the spread of world religions,&nbsp;changing&nbsp;ideas of race,&nbsp;class, and sexuality,&nbsp;colonialism&nbsp;and&nbsp;imperialism,&nbsp;capitalism, wars,&nbsp;revolutions, and more.&nbsp;Written by a distinguished&nbsp;scholar in the field of women’s&nbsp;and gender&nbsp;history, this&nbsp;third&nbsp;edition of&nbsp;Gender in History:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Examines&nbsp;how gender&nbsp;roles&nbsp;were shaped by&nbsp;family life,&nbsp;religious traditions,&nbsp;various&nbsp;other institutions,&nbsp;and how&nbsp;the institutions&nbsp;were influenced by gender&nbsp;</li> <li>Considers&nbsp;why&nbsp;gender&nbsp;variations&nbsp;developed in different&nbsp;cultures&nbsp;and in diverse&nbsp;social, ethnic, and racial groups within&nbsp;a single&nbsp;culture&nbsp;</li> <li>Addresses&nbsp;ideas&nbsp;in&nbsp;different&nbsp;cultures&nbsp;that&nbsp;shaped both&nbsp;informal&nbsp;societal&nbsp;norms and formalized laws&nbsp;</li> <li>Explores&nbsp;debates&nbsp;about&nbsp;the origins of patriarchy, the development of&nbsp;complex gender hierarchies,&nbsp;and contemporary movements for&nbsp;social&nbsp;change&nbsp;</li> <li>Discusses&nbsp;the&nbsp;gender implications of modern issues including the&nbsp;global pandemic&nbsp;and&nbsp;ongoing cultural&nbsp;and economic&nbsp;shifts&nbsp;</li> <li>Includes an accessible&nbsp;introduction&nbsp;to&nbsp;key theoretical and methodological issues&nbsp;and&nbsp;an&nbsp;instructor&rsquo;s&nbsp;website&nbsp;site with visual and written original sources&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><i>Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition</i>,&nbsp;is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as&nbsp;those on women&rsquo;s&nbsp;history,&nbsp;women in&nbsp;world&nbsp;history, and&nbsp;gender in&nbsp;world&nbsp;history, and a valuable supplement&nbsp;for general survey courses within&nbsp;History and&nbsp;Women&rsquo;s and&nbsp;Gender Studies programs.&nbsp;</p>