Bonnie G. Smith

Women in World History (eBook, ePUB)

1450 to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years.

Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts. Diseases have migrated through women's bodies and women themselves have deliberately spread religious belief and fervor as well as ideas. They have been global authors, soldiers, and astronauts encircling the globe and moving far beyond it. They have written classics in political and social thought and crafted literary and artistic works alongside others who were revolutionaries and reform-minded activists.

Historical scholarship has shown that there is virtually no part of the world where women's presence is not manifest, whether in archives, oral testimonials, personal papers, the material record, evidence of disease and famine, myth and religious teachings, and myriad other forms of documentation. As these studies mount, the idea of surveying women's past on a global basis becomes daunting. This book aims to redress this situation and offer a synthetic world history of women in modern times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474272940
• Artikelnr.: 57982170

Autorenporträt

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Women's Studies: The Basics (2013), Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to Present: A Narrative History with Documents (2007) and The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (2000). She is also the co-author, along with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin and Barbara Rosenwein, of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (4th Ed., 2012) and the general editor of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008), which won the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Work Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. Productive and Reproductive Lives-c. 1450-16002. Early Modern Structures of Power3. Imagining Their World 1450-16004. Productive Life across a Connected Globe 1600-17505. Populations, Ideas, and the Industrious Revolution 1600-18006. Revolts, Revolutions and States 1650-18307. Industrial Work and the Local/Global Economy, 1750-18808. Modernizing Women and the Nation 1830-19009. Expanding Empires, 1870-191410. Global Warfare, 1914-194511. Decolonizing the World, Decolonizing Women12. At the Vanguard of Change: Women's GlobalizationBibliographyIndex

Rezensionen

College instructors looking for a decent textbook that includes a strong perspective on women's roles throughout history for an undergraduate world history survey course will find that Smith's Women in World History is a great selection. Widely celebrated as a leading scholar in women's and gender history, Smith (Rutgers Univ.) does a superb job of balancing theoretical concerns with historical inquires in this global study of women's history over the past 500 years, written primarily for an undergraduate audience. To many, this is an impossible task to achieve, but Smith has accomplished it triumphantly. Not only does she provide a concise and accurate narrative of historical events, she also celebrates women's agency in the globalized past. Even more impressively, the author is highly conscious of the contributions of women in non-Western societies to the formation of the modern world, making this a truly global world history book. The glossary at the end of each chapter is an effective guide for teaching and review, and the lists for further reading are particularly helpful for students who want to explore each topic in greater depth. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. CHOICE