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v. 1. The theory and practice of women's history and gender history in global perspective / Margaret Strobel and Marjorie Bingham -- Family history as world history / Ann B. Waltner and 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 work : possibilities for a global, historical overview / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Race and ethnicity in women's and gender history in global perspective / Pamela Scully -- Gender and nation / Mrinalini Sinha -- Worlds of feminism / Susan Kent -- v. 2. Women in ancient civilizations / Sarah Shaver Muhges and Brady Hughes -- Women in East Asia : China, Japan, and Korea / Susan Mann -- Women and gender in South and Southeast Asia / Barbara N. Ramusack -- Medieval women in modern perspective / Judith M. Bennett -- Women and gender in Colonial Latin America / Ann Twinam -- The history of women in the United States to 1865 / Kathleen Brown -- v. 3. Women and gender in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odim -- Women in the Middle East since the rise of Islam / Nikki R. Keddie -- Women in early and modern Europe : a transnational approach / Judith P. Zinsser and Bonnie S. Anderson -- Russia and the Soviet Union / Barbara Engel -- Latin American women's history : the national period / Asunción Lavrin -- Women's and gender history in global perspective : North America after 1865 / Ellen Dubois -- v. 3. Women and gender in the history of sub-Saharan Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odim -- Women in the Middle East since the rise of Islam / Nikki R. Keddie -- Women in early and modern Europe : a transnational approach / Judith P. Zinsser and Bonnie S. Anderson -- Russia and the Soviet Union / Barbara Engel -- Latin American women's history : the national period / Asunción Lavrin -- Women's and gender history in global perspective : North America after 1865 / Ellen Dubois.

Discusses trends in gender and women's history from a regional perspective. This volume includes essays on sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, early and modern Europe, Russian and the Soviet Union, Latin American, and North America after 1865.