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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 | |