Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1

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.

"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

• Introduction Bonnie Smith; The theory and practice of women's and gender history in global perspective Margaret Strobel & Marjorie Bingham; Family history as world history Ann B. Waltner & Mary Jo Maynes; Exemplary women and sacred journeys: Women and gender in Judaism, Christianity and Islam from late antiquity to the eve of modernity Julia Clancy-Smith; Gender and nation Mrinalina Sinha; Race and ethnicity in women's and gender history in global perspective Pamela Scully; Gender and work: Possibilities for a global, historical overview Alice Kessler-Harris; Worlds of feminism Susan Kent