Fredericksburg, Virginia and the author of four books, including Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (2016), winner of the 2017 best book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (2005), winner of the 2006 Roland H. Bainton Prize for best book in early modern history or theology.
Meha Priyadarshini is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of Edinburgh. She studies the connections between colonial Latin America and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the material culture of the transoceanic exchanges.
Utsa Ray is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is the author of Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle Class (2015) and has published widely in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Indian Economic and Social History Review. She is also a part of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective.
Sean Redding is Zephaniah Swift Moore Professor of History at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she researches and writes on South African rural history. She is the author of Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963 (2006) and is working on a book‐length manuscript entitled “Violence, Gender and the Reconstruction of Tradition in Rural South Africa, 1880–1965.”
Meghan K. Roberts is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, where she teaches early modern European history. She is the author of Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France (2016) and is currently working on a study of eighteenth‐century medical practitioners.
Kumkum Roy teaches ancient Indian social history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of interest include political processes and institutions, gender studies, studies of marginalized groups, and pedagogical issues. She is the author of The A–Z Guide of Ancient India (2010) and Questioning Paradigms, Constructing Histories (2019).
Mary D. Sheriff (1950–2016) was the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art and department chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work was in eighteenth‐century art history of France, specializing in gender, sexuality, and creativity. Her books include The Exceptional Women: Elisabeth Vigée‐Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (1996), Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in 18th Century Art (2003), and the posthumously published Enchanted Islands: Picturing the Allure of Conquest in Eighteenth‐Century France (2018).
Deborah Simonton (FRHistS) is Associate Professor of British History, Emerita, University of Southern Denmark, and Visiting Professor, University of Turku. She leads the research network Gender in the European Town and is General Editor of The Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience (2017), and The Cultural History of Work (6 vols., Bloomsbury, 2018) with Anne Montenach. She is currently completing a volume for Routledge on Gender in the European Town.
Charles Sowerwine is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Melbourne. His Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France since 1870 (Cambridge, 1982, 2008) was the first work of an Anglophone author published by the Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (1978). Recent publications include, with Susan Foley, A Political Romance: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872–1882 (2012), and the third edition of France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society (2018).
Kate Kelsey Staples is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University interested in the gender and social history of urban spaces in medieval Europe, as well as their material culture. She has published Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages (2011) and a number of articles on fripperers, upholders, and the trade in secondhand clothing and goods in late medieval Paris and London.
Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University, former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2004–2009), and former president of the Middle East Studies Association (2017–2019). She is the author of Women in 19th Century Egypt (1985), In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998), and Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (2008), and is co‐author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (1999).
Bella Vivante is Professor of Classics, Emerita, at the University of Arizona. Her research has focused on women’s roles in ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, and she has developed an innovative, gynocentric approach to studying the many non‐Western features of ancient cultures that incorporates Native American women’s research in “The Primal Mind,” in Feminism and Classics (1992). Many of her works reveal antiquity’s dynamic qualities to both scholarly and general audiences, including her translation of Euripides’s Helen in Women on the Edge (1999) and Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2006), and, as scriptwriter and lead actor, Women, Marriage and the Family in Ancient Greece (2012 dvd).
Anne Walthall is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Irvine. She has edited or co‐edited a number of volumes on women, including Women and Class in Japanese History (1999) and Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (2008). She is also the author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (1998).
Barbara Winslow is Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, where she was the Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program as well as the Coordinator of the Secondary Social Studies Program. She is also the founder and Director Emerita of the “Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women's Activism, 1945 to the Present” (chisholmproject.com). Her many publications include Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism, (1996, reprinted 2021), Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change (2013), Clio in the Classroom: A Guide to Teaching US History (with Carol Berkin and Margaret Crocco; 2009), and with Julie Gallagher, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Non Traditional Women Historians (2018).
Christine D. Worobec is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Pre‐Emancipation Period (1991) and Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (2001). She also co‐authored Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (1991).
Marcia Wright is Professor of History Emerita at Columbia University. Her publications include African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives, co‐edited with M.J. Hay (1982) and Strategies of Slaves and Women: Life Stories from East‐Central Africa (1993).
Introduction
Teresa A. Meade and Merry E. Wiesner‐Hanks
When a book project, no matter how long or short in the making, comes to an end, authors confront a final step of choosing an image for the cover, a task that is often pleasant, but also challenging. For this new edition, we wanted the cover to illustrate the long temporal sweep of gender history and the diversity of topics contained in the book, as well as highlight their global reach. The image we selected has just the geographic and chronological breadth we sought. In it a woman in the rural Ghanaian village of Mowire fills buckets of water that she and her daughter, who sits nearby, will carry a long distance. According to Nancy Borowick, who took the photograph, women like this along with “children
