Women in World History

1450 to the Present

By: Bonnie G. Smith

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Hardcover | 31 October 2019

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336 Pages

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Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to the present, enabling readers to understand women's relationship to world developments over the past five hundred years.

Women have served the world as unfree people, often forced to migrate as slaves, trafficked sex workers, and indentured laborers working off debts. Diseases have migrated through women's bodies and women themselves have deliberately spread religious belief and fervor as well as ideas. They have been global authors, soldiers, and astronauts encircling the globe and moving far beyond it. They have written classics in political and social thought and crafted literary and artistic works alongside others who were revolutionaries and reform-minded activists.

Historical scholarship has shown that there is virtually no part of the world where women's presence is not manifest, whether in archives, oral testimonials, personal papers, the material record, evidence of disease and famine, myth and religious teachings, and myriad other forms of documentation. As these studies mount, the idea of surveying women's past on a global basis becomes daunting. This book aims to redress this situation and offer a synthetic world history of women in modern times.

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Bonnie Smith has taken on an impossible task-to summarize the history of women across the entire globe over the past five centuries-and performed it with aplomb! She has written a book that is engaging as well as comprehensive, kaleidoscopic in colorful detail while revealing common patterns and divergent pathways across every continent. With clear prose, ample illustrations, frequent summary conclusions, and a glossary and guide to further readings, Smith has created the ideal textbook for students and teachers of global history and women's history. And the book deserves an audience far beyond those categories. Anyone interested in the modern world and how it came to be will find fascinating insights on every page.
Paul Ropp, Distinguished Professor of History, Clark University, USA

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