Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in womens and World History in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand womens relationship to World developments over the past five hundred years.
This book aims to redress this situation and offer a synthetic World History of Women in modern times..
As these studies mount, the idea of surveying womens past on a global basis becomes daunting.
Historical scholarship has shown that there is virtually no part of the World where womens 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.
They have written classics in political and social thought and crafted literary and artistic works alongside others who were revolutionaries and reform-minded activists.
They have been global authors, soldiers, and astronauts encircling the globe and moving far beyond it.
Diseases have migrated through womens bodies and Women themselves have deliberately spread religious belief and fervor as well as ideas.
Women have served the World as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts.
Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in womens and World History in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand womens relationship to World developments over the past five hundred years
