ABOUT THIS BOOK

The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. Volume 1 of the three-volume series addresses the comparative themes that the editors and contributors see as central to understanding women's history around the world. Authors like Margaret Strobel, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Mrinalini Sinha provide overviews of the theory and practice of women's and gender history and analyze family history, nationalism, and work. Editor Bonnie G. Smith rounds out the collection with essays on religion, race, ethnicity, and the different varieties of feminism.

Authoritative and wide-ranging, Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1, offers an invaluable resource on the thought and methods of a generation's leading figures in feminist scholarship.

Contributors: Marjorie Bingham, Julia Clancy-Smith, Susan Kent, Alice Kessler-Harris, Mary Jo Maynes, Pamela Scully, Mrinalini Sinha, Margaret Strobel, and Ann B. Waltner

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Bonnie G. Smith is the Board of Governors Professor of History and director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France and many other books.

REVIEWS

"The vast new evidence of our global connectedness has revived the imperative to understand the world better and especially to bring into focus the worldwide history of women. These volumes are devoted to surveying the most recent findings on women and gender in hopes of bringing teachers at all levels a practical introduction to the new data, historical issues, and historiographical debates from all regions of the world."--Bonnie G. Smith, from the Introduction to Volume 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
 
 Introduction
 Bonnie Smith
 1. The Theory and Practice of Women's and Gender
 History in
 Global Perspective
 Margaret Strobel and Marjorie Bingham
 2. Family History as World History
 Ann B. Waltner and Mary Jo Maynes
 3. Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and
 Gender in
 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity
 to the
 Eve of Modernity
 Julia Clancy-Smith
 4. Gender and Nation
 Mrinalini Sinha
 5. Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in
 Global
 Perspective
 Pamela Scully
 6. Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global,
 Historical
 Overview
 Alice Kessler-Harris
 7. Worlds of Feminism
 Susan Kent
 Contributors
 Index




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women History