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