World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Wiesner, Merry E.

doi:10.1353/jwh.2007.0008

Cited by 21 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 38 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…57 Gender is only beginning to make inroads into world history, but the books reviewed in this essay suggest topics that are ripe for comparative treatment. 58 For example, in 'Dutch Asia', the sub-title of Wives, slaves and concubines, Jones invites (though does not pursue) a consideration of how VOC law functioned in different Asian environments. While Batavia's obvious point of comparison would be other cities in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, such as Ambon, Makassar and Melaka, it may well be useful to look further afield.…”

Section: Thinking Crosstextuallymentioning

confidence: 99%

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

Andaya¹

2012

J. Southeast Asian stud.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Historians may have come late to the study of women and gender in Southeast Asia, but when these three books are placed along a historiographical spectrum one can only be impressed at how far the field has moved in approach and methodology. Exploiting previously untapped sources that emanate from very different sites — a Dutch East India Company courtroom, the women's quarters of a Malay palace, the privacy of a Javanese home — the authors open up new avenues by which to explore the complexity of Southeast Asia's gender history. Though the contexts are very different, the movement through time (Wives,slaves and concubinesis set in the late eighteenth century,Victorious wivesin the nineteenth, andRealizing the dreamin the twentieth) provides an opportunity to gauge shifts in representations of ‘femaleness’, attitudes towards gender roles, and women's responses to change.

show abstract

Section: Thinking Crosstextuallymentioning

confidence: 99%

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

Andaya¹

2012

J. Southeast Asian stud.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Merry Wiesner Hanks, discussing processes of integration between world/global history and gender, has also recently emphasized the need to overcome the notion of separate spheres, which has often provided a rationale for excluding a gendered approach to global history. 7 Generally speaking, historians of the early modern period (stretching into a 'long nineteenth century') seem to welcome a global analysis focused on the construction of gendered identities through bodily practices and consumption, which are also relevant to processes of state formation and the fashioning of the public sphere due to the centrality of issues of representation, distinction and power. In this respect, Kenneth Pomeranz has highlighted the innovative perspective offered by a global history of dress and bodily practices in the construction of European masculinities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Trends: Gender Studies in Europe and the US

Calvi

2010

European History Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The new interpretive turn in gender studies is disseminated and discussed particularly in North American scholarly journals, and is situated at the intersection between the historiographies of family, women and gender (including men’s studies) and world history.\ud This has displaced in the direction of ‘world’ or ‘global history’ a practice of writing European history which has traditionally privileged circumscribed, ‘particular’ areas of enquiry, located within the boundaries of communities, regions and nations. To avoid becoming passive latecomers in a new master narrative, where imbalances of power and unequal distribution of academic, linguistic and financial resources tend to marginalize large areas of the world, the tradition of women’s history/gender historiography should seek to develop transcultural cooperation with critical historiographies in non-Western areas, with the aim of constructing an ecumenical narrative of world history

show abstract

Bibliography

2012

A Companion to World History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Cited by 21 publications

References 38 publications

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

New voices from Southeast Asian women: A review essay

Global Trends: Gender Studies in Europe and the US

Bibliography

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About