Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1 Introduction and overview
- Part I Historiography, method, and themes
- 2 Writing world history
- 3 The evolution of world histories
- 4 Evolution, rupture, and periodization
- 5 From divergence to convergence: centrifugal and centripetal forces in history
- 6 Belief, knowledge, and language
- 7 Historiography of technology and innovation
- 8 Fire and fuel in human history
- 9 Family history and world history: from domestication to biopolitics
- 10 Gendered world history
- 11 What does anthropology contribute to world history?
- 12 Migration in human history
- Part II The Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- Index
- References
10 - Gendered world history
from Part I - Historiography, method, and themes
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Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1 Introduction and overview
- Part I Historiography, method, and themes
- 2 Writing world history
- 3 The evolution of world histories
- 4 Evolution, rupture, and periodization
- 5 From divergence to convergence: centrifugal and centripetal forces in history
- 6 Belief, knowledge, and language
- 7 Historiography of technology and innovation
- 8 Fire and fuel in human history
- 9 Family history and world history: from domestication to biopolitics
- 10 Gendered world history
- 11 What does anthropology contribute to world history?
- 12 Migration in human history
- Part II The Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses the concepts of gender, noting contradictions and paradoxes in what might initially seem to be a neat dichotomy of male and female. It examines the development of gender history, and the ways this was interwoven with political movements and with trends in history scholarship. Historians of gender and sexuality were prominent exponents of the cultural turn, and many analyzed representations of women, men, the body, sexual actions, and related topics within different types of discourses. Some historians came to assert that everything regarding gender and sexuality is determined by culture, a position often labeled "social constructionist". Despite the lack of intersection in the past, however, a growing number of studies in certain research areas are beginning to incorporate insights from both gender history and world history. The chapter highlights five areas of gendered world history research: early human societies; intermarriage; national identity and citizenship; migration; colonialism and imperialism.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 234 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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