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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.
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A Companion to Gender History BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Defined by theme, period and/or region, each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each contribution is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. Published A Companion to Western Historical Thought Edited by Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza A Companion to Gender History Edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO BRITISH HISTORY Published A Companion to Roman Britain Edited by Malcolm Todd A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Edited by H. T. Dickinson A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages Edited by S. H. Rigby A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain Edited by Chris Williams A Companion to Stuart Britain Edited by Barry Coward A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain Edited by Chris Wrigley In preparation A Companion to Britain in the Early Middle Ages Edited by Pauline Stafford A Companion to Contemporary Britain Edited by Paul Addison and Harriet Jones A Companion to Tudor Britain Edited by Robert Tittler and Norman Jones BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO EUROPEAN HISTORY Published A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance Edited by Guido Ruggiero A Companion to the Reformation World Edited by R. Po-chia Hsia In preparation A Companion to Europe Since 1945 Edited by Klaus Larres A Companion to Europe 1900–1945 Edited by Gordon Martel BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY Published A Companion to the American Revolution Edited by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole A Companion to the Vietnam War Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco A Companion to 19th-Century America Edited by William L. Barney A Companion to Colonial America Edited by Daniel Vickers A Companion to the American South Edited by John B. Boles A Companion to American Foreign Relations Edited by Robert D. Schulzinger A Companion to American Indian History Edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury A Companion to 20th-Century America Edited by Stephen J. Whitfield A Companion to American Women’s History Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt A Companion to the American West Edited by William Deverell A Companion to Post-1945 America Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO WORLD HISTORY In preparation A Companion to the History of the