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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL GENDER HISTORY
SECOND EDITION
Edited by
Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
This second edition first published 2021
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Names: Meade, Teresa A., 1948– editor. | Wiesner‐Hanks, Merry E., 1952– editor.
Title: A companion to global gender history / edited by Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Series: Blackwell companions to world history | Revised edition of A companion to gender history, 2004. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020029247 (print) | LCCN 2020029248 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119535805 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119535782 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119535829 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex role–History. | Gender identity–History. | Sex role–Cross‐cultural studies. | Gender identity–Cross‐cultural studies. | Feminist theory.
Classification: LCC HQ1075 .C655 2020 (print) | LCC HQ1075 (ebook) | DDC 305.3–dc23
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About the Editors
Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture, Union College, Schenectady, New York. She has focused on integrating issues of gender and ethnicity into the Latin American historical narrative as a teacher of undergraduate students and author of A History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the Present (2009, 2016) and A Brief History of Brazil (2002, 2009). In addition to authoring and editing other books and journals, she is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review and former president of the Board of Trustees of The Journal of Women’s History.
Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee. She is the long‐time senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal, former editor of the Journal of Global History, and the editor‐in‐chief of the seven‐volume Cambridge World History. She is the author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean, and are widely used in teaching around the world, including Gender in History: Global Perspectives and Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.
Contributors
Patricia Acerbi teaches history at George Washington University and through the Clemente Course in the Humanities at Bard College. She is the author of Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925 (2017) and a number of journal articles and book chapters.
Susan D. Amussen is Professor of History at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society (2007); and (with David Underdown) Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning the World Upside Down (2017).
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