Women's History in Global Perspective
- ISBN-10
- 0252029313
- ISBN-13
- 9780252029318
- Category
- Women
- Pages
- 334
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Bonnie G. Smith
Description
Volume 2 is concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and during particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations, those of China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the United States to 1865.
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