Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119719205
Year: 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 304


Description:


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 cultur