Women in World History by Hughes, Sarah S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword by Kevin Reilly Preface About the Editors Introduction: Gendering World History, Globalizing Women's History

Women's Empowerment Colonialism Work and Family International Organizations Gender-Based Violence and Women's Human Rights Suggested Further Readings

Part 1: 1500-1800

1. China and Japan: The Neo-Confucian Regimes of the Qing Monarchy and the Tokugawa Shogunate

1.1 Qing Rape Laws, 1646

Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang Vivien W. Ng, "Rape Laws in Qing China"

1.2 Qing Laws Encouraged Widows' Chastity

Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang Susan Mann, "Widows . . . in Qing Dynasty China"

1.3 Chinese Women Artists

Marsha Weidner et al., Views from the Jade Terrace

1.4 Rural Japanese Women during the Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868

Anne Walthall, "Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan"

Suggested Further Readings

2. The Middle East: Women of the Ottoman Empire

2.1 Paths to Power at the Ottoman Court

Leslie P. Peirce, "Ottoman Royal Women" Leslie P. Peirce, The Imperial Harem

2.2 Muslim Women's Rights in Seventeenth-Century Turkish Courts

Ronald C. Jennings, "Women in ... the Sharia Court"

Suggested Further Readings

3. India: Women of the Mughal Empire

3.1 Hindu Bhakti Poets

Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, Women Writing in India

3.2 Family Production of Cotton Cloth

S.M. Ikram, Muslim Civilization in India Irfan Habib, "Mughal India"

3.3 The Mughal Empress Nur Jahan

Ellison B. Findly, Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India

Suggested Further Readings

4. Europe: Witches, Workers, and Queens

4.1 Witchcraze, 1560-1760

Anne L. Barstow, Witchcraze

4.2 Women's Work

Alice Clark, Working Life of Women

4.3 Many Queens

Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own Voltaire, "Precis du siecle de Louis XV" Frederick the Great, Histoire de la guerre de sept ans Otto C. Podewils, Letter to Frederick II

Suggested Further Readings

5. Gender in the European Colonization of the Americas

5.1 The Jesuit Attack on Algonquian Women

Carol Devens, Countering Colonization

5.2 Pueblo and Apache Domestic Slaves in New Mexico

Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away

5.3 African Women in Barbados

Hilary McD. Beckles, Natural Rebels

5.4 Honor and Shame in New Spain

Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away

5.5 The Independence of Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz

Sor Juana, The Answer

Suggested Further Readings

6. African Women in a New Era of Commerce and State Building

6.1 Fetu Women on the Coast of Ghana, 1662-69

Wilhelm J. Muller, "Description of the Fetu Country, 1662-1669"

6.2 Slave Wives, Free Sisters: Bakongo Women

Susan H. Broadhead, "Slave Wives, Free Sisters"

6.3 Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba, 1624—63

John K. Thornton, "Legitimacy and Political Power"

6.4 Eur-African Women Slave Traders

Bruce L. Mouser, "Women Slavers of Guinea-Conakry"

Suggested Further Readings

Part 2: 1800-Present

7. Western Europe: Equality and Equity for New Women

7.1 The French Revolution

Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, Women in Revolutionary Paris Bonnie G. Smith, Changing Lives

7.2 George Sand, Novelist

George Sand, Indiana Bonnie G. Smith, Changing Lives

7.3 Socialist Women: Clara Zetkin

Bonnie G. Smith, Changing Lives Clara Zetkin, "Women's Work and the Trade Unions"

7.4 The Right to Vote and Govern

Bonnie G. Smith, Changing Lives

7.5 Relational and Individual Feminisms

Karen Offen, "Defining Feminism"

7.6 The Welfare State

Ida Blom, "Voluntary Motherhood" Gisela Bock and Pat Thane, Maternity and Gender Policies

Suggested Further Readings

8. Africa: The Colonial Legacy

8.1 Baba, a Hausa Woman of Nigeria

Mary E. Smith, Baba of Karo

8.2 Divorce among the Hausa

Mary E. Smith, Baba of Karo

8.3 Widows "Sold," Men Migrate

Jane I. Guyer, "The Economic Position of Beti Widows" Margaret J. Hay, "Women ... in Colonial Western Kenya"

8.4 Urban Women Migrants

Christine Obbo, African Women

8.5 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya

Maria Nzomo and Kathleen Staudt, "Man-made Political Machinery in Kenya" Nahid Toubia, Female Genital Mutilation Claire Robertson, "Grassroots in Kenya"

Suggested Further Readings

9. The Symbol of the Veil in Modern Islam

9.1 Nomadic Carpet Weaving

William Irons, "The Place of Carpet Weaving in Turkmen Society"

9.2 Autobiography of Huda Shaarawi, Egyptian Feminist

Huda Shaarawi, Harem Years

9.3 Women and the Iranian Revolution of 1978

Mary E. Hegland, "Alibad Women" Mahnaz Afkhami, "Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran" Shahla Haeri, "Temporary Marriage"

Suggested Further Readings

10. India: National Unity, Gender Divisions

10.1 Indian Women and the Disaster of British Rule

Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, Women Writing in India Malavika Karlekar, Voices from Within Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism

10.2 Coming out of Purdah

Hanna Papanek, "Caging the Lion"

10.3 Dalit Women

Sumitra Bhave, Pan on Fire

10.4 Women as National Leaders: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi

Suggested Further Readings

11. Seeking Liberation in New East Asian Societies: China and Japan after 1800

11.1 Women of the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-64

Ono Kazuko, Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution

11.2 Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Communist China after 1949

Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance and Revolution Sharon L. Sievers, "Women in China" Jan Myrdal, Report from a Chinese Village

11.3 Women's Contribution to Japan's Industrialization

Sharon L. Sievers, Flowers in Salt

11.4 Japanese Women in World War II

Sumie S. Mishima, The Broader Way

11.5 The Promotion Track versus the "Mommy" Track in Postwar Japan

Sumie S. Mishima, The Broader Way Sharon L. Sievers, "Women in Japan"

Suggested Further Readings

12. The Americas: The Personal Is Political

12.1 The 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

Dorothy Sterling, ed., "Turning the World Upside Down"

12.2 Feminism and Class in Argentina and-Chile, 1900-25

Asunción Lavrin, "Women, Labor, and the Left"

12.3 Village Women in Mexican Migrant Culture

Lynn Stephen, Zapotec Women

12.4 Second-Wave Feminism in the United States in the Sixties

Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful Dana Densmore, "Sex Roles and Female Oppression"

12.5 Different Voices

Barbara Cameron, "Gee You Don't Seem Like an Indian"

Suggested Further Readings

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