Women in World History: v. 2: Readings from 1500 to the Present
by Hughes,Sarah ShaverFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-01-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Examining selected societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, this uniquely designed history discusses political and economic issues; marriage practices, motherhood, and enslavement; religious beliefs and spiritual development. It includes well known as well as lesser-known and anonymous women. Both primary and secondary source readings are included.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| 1500-1800 | |
| China and Japan: The Neo-Confucian Regimes of the Qing Monarchy and the Tokugawa Shogunate | |
| Qing Rape Laws | |
| 1646 Jonathan D. Spence | |
| The Death of Woman Wang Vivien W. Ng | |
| Rape Laws in Qing China | |
| Qing Laws Encouraged Widows' Chastity | |
| The Death of Woman | |
| Widows à in Qing China | |
| Chinese Women Artists Marsha Weidner, et al | |
| Views from the Jade Terrace | |
| Rural Japanese Women During the Tokugawa Period | |
| 1600-1868 Anne Walthall | |
| Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan | |
| The Middle East: Women of the Ottoman Empire | |
| Paths to Power at the Ottoman Court | |
| Ottoman Royal Women | |
| The Imperial Harem | |
| Muslim Women's Rights in Seventeenth-Century Turkish Courts | |
| Women in à the Sharia Court | |
| India: Women of the Mughal Empire | |
| Hindu Bhakti Poets | |
| Women Writing in India | |
| Family Production of Cotton Cloth | |
| Muslim Civilization in India | |
| Mughal India | |
| The Mughal Empress | |
| Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India | |
| Europe: Witches, Workers and Queens | |
| Witchcraze 1560-1760 | |
| Witchcraze | |
| Women's Work | |
| Women, Work, and Family | |
| Working Life of Women | |
| Many Queens | |
| A History of Their Own Voltaire | |
| Precis | |
| Historie de la Guerre | |
| Letter to | |
| Gender in the European Colonization of the Americas | |
| The Jesuit Attack on Algonquian Women | |
| Countering Colonization | |
| Pueblo and Apache Domestic Slaves in New Mexico | |
| When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away | |
| African Women in Barbados | |
| Natural Rebels | |
| Honor and Shame in New Spain | |
| When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away | |
| The Independence of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Sor Juana | |
| The Answer | |
| African Women in a New Era of Commerce and State-Building | |
| Fetu Women on the Coast of Ghana 1662-69 | |
| Description of the Fetu Country, 1662-1669 | |
| Slave Wives | |
| Free Sisters: Bakongo Women | |
| Slave Wives | |
| Free Sisters | |
| Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba 1624-63 | |
| Legitimacy and Political Power.à | |
| Eur-African Women as Slave Traders | |
| Women Slavers in Guinea-Conakry Part II 1800 - Present | |
| Western Europe: Equality and Equity for New Women | |
| French Revolution | |
| Women in Revolutionary Paris | |
| Changing Lives | |
| George Sand | |
| Novelist George Sand | |
| Indiana | |
| Changing Lives | |
| Socialist Women: Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) | |
| Changing Lives | |
| Women's Work and the Trade Unions | |
| The Right to Vote and Govern | |
| Changing Lives | |
| Relational and Individual Feminisms Karen Offen | |
| Defining Feminism | |
| The Welfare State Ida Blom | |
| Voluntary Motherhood Gisela Bock and Pat Thane | |
| Maternity & Gender Policies | |
| Africa: The Colonial Legacy | |
| Baba, a Hausa Woman of Nigeria | |
| Baba of Karo | |
| Divorce Among the Hausa | |
| Baba of Karo | |
| Widows Sold | |
| Men Migrate | |
| The Economic Position of Beti Widows | |
| Women à in Colonial Western Kenya | |
| Urban Women Migrants Christine Obbo | |
| African Women | |
| Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya Maria Nzomo and Kathleen Straudt Man-made Political Machinery in Kenya Nahil Toubia | |
| Female Genital Mutilation Claire Robertson | |
| Grassroots in Kenya | |
| The Symbol of the Veil in Modern Islam | |
| Nomadic Carpet Weaving William Irons | |
| The Place of Carpet Weaving in Turkman Society | |
| Autobiography of Huda Shaarawi | |
| Egyptian Feminist Huda Shaarawi | |
| Harem Years | |
| Women and the Iranian Revolution of 1978 Mary E. Hegland | |
| Alibad Women | |
| Women in Post-Revolutionary | |
| Temporary Marriage | |
| India: National Unity, Gender Divisions | |
| Indian Women and the Disaster of British Rule | |
| Women Writing in India | |
| Voices from Within Kumari Jayawardena | |
| Feminism and Nationalism | |
| Coming out of Purdah Hanna Papanek | |
| Caging the Lion | |
| Dalit Women | |
| Pan on Fire | |
| Women as National Leaders-Prime Minister | |
| Indira Gandhi | |
| Seeking Liberation in New East Asian Societies, China and Japan after 1800 | |
| Women of the Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864 | |
| Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution | |
| Women Hold up Half the Sky: Communist China after 1949 | |
| Women, Resistance and Revolution | |
| Women in China | |
| Report from a Chinese Village | |
| Women's Contribution to Japan's Industrialization | |
| Flowers in Salt | |
| Japanese Women In World War II | |
| The Broader Way | |
| The Promotion Track vs. The Mommy Track in Postwar Japan | |
| The Broader Way Sharon L. Sievers | |
| Women in Japan | |
| Americas: The Personal is Political | |
| The 1837 Antislavery Convention of American Women Dorothy Sterling, ed. | |
| Turning the World Upside Down | |
| Feminism and Class in Argentina and Chile 1900-1925 | |
| Women, Labor and The Left | |
| Village Women in Mexican Migrant Culture | |
| Zapotec Women | |
| Second Wave Feminism in the United States in the Sixties | |
| Sisterhood is Powerful Dana Densmore | |
| Sex Roles and Female Oppression | |
| Different Voices Barbara Cameron | |
| Gee You Don't Seem Like an Indian | |
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