9781405149600-1405149604-A Companion to Gender History

A Companion to Gender History

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A Companion to Gender History (ISBN-13: 9781405149600 and ISBN-10: 1405149604), written by authors Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Teresa A. Meade, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Reference (Historical Study & Educational Resources, Women in History, World History, Gender & the Law, Legal Theory & Systems, History, Encyclopedias & Subject Guides, Feminist Theory, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Companion to Gender History (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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