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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Gendering World History, Globalizing Women's History | |
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| Prehistoric Women: Shaping Evolution, Sustenance, and Economy | |
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| Women in the "Gatherer-Hunter" Phase | |
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| "Women in Evolution" | |
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| Who Invented Farming? | |
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| Women in Prehistory | |
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| Women's Carding, Spinning, and Weaving | |
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| Prehistoric Textiles | |
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| Cooking: Women's Work in the Division of Labor | |
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| "The Raw, the Cooked, and the Half-Baked" | |
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| The Women of Ancient Egypt | |
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| Hatshepsut's Reign, 1473-1458 B.C.E. | |
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| Inscription from Hatshepsut's Temple | |
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| A Brother-Sister Marriage | |
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| The Story of Naneferkaptah and Ahwere | |
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| Women's Work | |
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| The Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt | |
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| Cleopatra, 69-30 B.C.E. | |
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| Cleopatra: A Study in Politics and Propaganda | |
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| India: Women in Early Hindu and Buddhist Cultures | |
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| The Laws of Manu | |
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| The Laws of Manu | |
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| The Carpenter's Wife | |
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| A Folk Tale | |
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| Sita, the Ideal Hindu Wife | |
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| The Ramayana | |
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| Psalms of the Buddhist Nuns | |
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| Therigatha | |
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| Israel: Jewish Women in the Torah and the Diaspora | |
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| Eve's Purpose and Her Sin in Genesis | |
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| Genesis 2:7-9, 16-8, 21-5 | |
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| Genesis 3:1-7, 9-13 | |
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| Genesis 3:16-7 | |
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| Marriage and Childbirth among Eve's Descendants | |
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| Genesis 29:13-32 | |
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| Genesis 30:1-6 | |
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| Genesis 38:6-26 | |
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| The Rites of Jewish Women | |
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| Leviticus 15:16-30 | |
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| Marriage in the Diaspora: Medieval Egypt | |
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| A Mediterranean Society | |
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| Greece: Patriarchal Dominance in Classical Athens | |
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| The Reign of Phallocracy | |
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| The Reign of the Phallus | |
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| The Perfect Wife at Home | |
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| Oeconomicus | |
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| Athenian Slavery | |
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| The Reign of the Phallus | |
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| Neaera, a Courtesan | |
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| Court Records of the Trial of Neaera | |
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| China: Imperial Women of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) | |
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| The Regency of Empress Lu | |
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| The History of the Former Han Dynasty Correspondence of Empress Lu and Mao-tun | |
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| Chinese Women as Pawns | |
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| "Eighteen Verses Sung to a Tatar Reed Whistle" | |
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| Princesses as Power Brokers | |
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| "Imperial Marriage in the Native Chinese and Non-Han State, Han to Ming" | |
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| Women in the Late Roman Republic: Independence, Divorce, and Serial Marriages | |
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| Letters from Cicero to His Wife, Terentia | |
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| Cicero: The Letters to His Friends | |
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| The Proscription of 43 B.C.E. | |
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| Appian's Roman History | |
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| Hortensia's Speech | |
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| Appian's Roman History | |
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| The Roman Family | |
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| "Divorce Roman Style" | |
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| "Remarriage and the Structure of the Upper-Class Roman Family" | |
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| Western Europe: Christian Women on Manors, in Convents, and in Towns | |
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| Christianity's Dual Vision of Women | |
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| The Passion of Saint Perpetua | |
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| Galatians 3:26-8 | |
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| Colossians 3:18-22 | |
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| 1 Corinthians 4:33-5 | |
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| 1 Timothy 2:8-15 | |
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| Conversion of the Franks | |
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| "The Thuringian War" | |
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| Nuns as Popular Authors: Hildegard of Bingen | |
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| Beyond Their Sex | |
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| A Nun's Poetry | |
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| "Eve" and "The Virgin Mary" | |
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| Christine de Pisan, Professional Writer | |
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| Beyond Their Sex | |
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| "Objections to The Romance of the Rose" | |
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| How Ladies Who Live on Their Lands Should Conduct Themselves | |
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| Parisian Women's Occupations in 1292 and 1313 C.E. | |
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| Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe | |
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| The Middle East: Islam, the Family, and the Seclusion of Women | |
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| The Quran | |
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| The Holy Quran, 24:32 | |
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| "The Past and Present of Women in the Muslim World" | |
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| Aisha, Muhammad's Beloved Wife | |
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| Aishah the Beloved of Mohammed | |
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| Muslim Women in Medieval Cairo | |
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| "Manners and Customs of Fourteenth-Century Cairene Women" | |
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| China and Japan: The Patriarchal Ideal | |
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| Confucian Mothers | |
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| The Biographies of Eminent Chinese Women | |
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| Footbinding in China | |
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| "Women in China, Japan, and Korea" | |
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| Women in the Japanese Emperor's Court | |
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| The Pillow Book | |
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| "Did He Come to Me" | |
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| "This Name of Hers" | |
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| Africa: Traders, Slaves, Sorcerers, and Queen Mothers | |
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| Female Slavery and Women's Work | |
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| The Book of Routes and Realms | |
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| Journey | |
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| Women's Friendship with Men | |
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| Journey | |
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| Sorcerers and Queens | |
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| Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali | |
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| Queens and Queen Mothers | |
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| Journey | |
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| The Meaning of Nudity | |
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| Journey | |
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| Southeast Asia: The Most Fortunate Women in the World | |
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| Gender Autonomy | |
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| Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 | |
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| "Sharing a Husband" | |
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| Merchants, Diplomats, and Queens | |
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| The Customs of Cambodia | |
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| Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 | |
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| The Travels of Mendes Pinto | |
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| Widespread Literacy | |
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| Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 | |
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| The Americas: Aztec, Inca, and Iroquois Women | |
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| Aztec Greetings to Newborn Babies | |
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| The Florentine Codex | |
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| Aztec Women's Careers and Character | |
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| The Florentine Codex | |
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| The Aztec Ceremony of the Sweeping of the Roads, September 1-20 | |
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| Aztecs: An Interpretation | |
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| The Politics of Iroquois Cooperation | |
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| "Iroquois Women" | |
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| Food and Power | |
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| "Iroquois Women" | |
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| Pawns of the Inca | |
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| Moon, Sun, and Witches | |
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| Glossary | |
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| About the Editors | |