The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2710 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148909

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474272957

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Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Anne Commire
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography
ISBN : UOM:39015054134377

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Women in World History by Anne Commire Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of significant women from throughout the history of the world, each with birth and death dates when known, a time line, quotation, and references. Arranged alphabetically from R-Schr.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199764468

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women by Anonim Pdf

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women will provide clear, current, comprehensive information on the major topics of scholarly interest within the study of Islam and women.

Author : Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Neva Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317471615

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Encyclopedia of Women in American History by Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Neva Goodwin Pdf

This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more, as well as profiles of notable American women from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. Primary sources and original documents are included throughout.

Author : Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191667299

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199328338

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American Women's History by Susan Ware Pdf

What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : World history
ISBN : OCLC:1370385794

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Encyclopedia of World History by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia with thousands of ilustrations, including date panels and quick reference timelines.

Author : Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190621971

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Gender: a World History by Susan Kingsley Kent Pdf

"On November 24, 1929, rumors that British colonial officials planned to tax Igbo women reached the village of Oloko in southeastern Nigeria. Mark Emeruwa, instructed by the local warrant chief, Okugu, to carry out a census of women in preparation for their taxation, entered the compound of a woman named Nwanyeruwa and told her to begin counting her animals. She replied angrily that people had died from colonial counting, and insulted him and his mother by demanding of him, "Was your mother counted?" Emeruwa, enraged, grabbed her by the throat and tried to throttle her. She, her hands wet with oil from the palm nuts she had been pounding, smeared his Western-style suit with the red sticky stuff. He ran off to Okugu's compound to tell him of the events. The warrant chief summoned her to his dwelling and insisted she would pay the tax, threatening her with deep trouble and promising that "when the District Officer comes, he will take charge of you." To a woman uncertain of what lay in store under the British legal system, his threat could well have meant she would be executed. Upon hearing of Okugu's treatment of Nwanyeruwa, a large crowd of women surrounded his compound. There they "sat on" him, a locally recognized practice undertaken when men committed offenses against women. When "sitting on a man," women danced and sang until the object of their grievance acknowledged his offense and promised to make restitution. In this particular instance, the chief not only refused to admit to any wrong-doing, he set male members of his compound on the women, causing injury to eight of them. In response to Okugu's transgressions-entirely out of step with the expectations of his office-and owing to the persistent rumors of taxation of women circulating in other towns and villages, enormous crowds of women-amounting to tens of thousands-attacked native courts, looted banks, and stormed a number of European warehouses in a variety of towns and villages in southeastern Nigeria"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social history
ISBN : 9780199743360

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History: Men's-YMCA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185278245

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Women and History by Gerda Lerner Pdf

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Critical and Primary Sources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1474265219

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Gender History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

An essential collection of key readings exploring gender history globally from antiquity through to the present.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 0197522343

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American Women by Susan Ware Pdf

"American Women: A Concise History offers the most accessible and engaging introduction to the history of American women"--

Author : Julia M. O'Brien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199836994

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies by Julia M. O'Brien Pdf

As the first major encyclopedia of its kind, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (OEBGS) is the go-to source for scholars and students undertaking original research in the field. Extending the work of nineteenth and twentieth century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, the Encyclopedia seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute the world of the Bible. With contributions from leading scholars in gender and biblical studies as well as contemporary gender theorists, classicists, archaeologists, and ancient historians, this comprehensive reference work reflects the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the field and traces both historical and modern conceptions of gender and sexuality in the Bible. The two-volume Encyclopedia contains more than 160 entries ranging in length from 1,000 to 10,000 words. Each entry includes bibliographic references and suggestions for further reading, as well as a topical outline and index to aid in research. The OEBGS builds upon the pioneering work of biblically focused gender theorists to help guide and encourage further gendered discussions of the Bible.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 0195155688

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Oxford American Children's Encyclopedia by Oxford University Press Pdf

Presents alphabetically arranged articles in nine volumes covering a wide range of human knowledge.