Gender and History Special Issues

In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. • Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings • Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicised • Features original research from a group of international scholars • The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe • Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. • Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves • Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes.

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. • Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space • Features a wide geographical and methodological range • Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Sex, Gender and the Sacred presents a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that explore the interlocking narratives of religion and gender encompassing 4,000 years of history. • Contains readings relating to sex and religion that encompass 4,000 years of gender history • Features new research in religion and gender across diverse cultures, periods, and religious traditions • Presents multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives with significant comparative potential • Offers original theories and concepts relating to gender, religion, and sexuality • Includes innovative interpretations of the connections between visual, verbal, and material aspects of particular religious traditions

Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal how historians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary, methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis. • Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates central in gender history over the past two decades • Contributions within this volume to the work on gender history are approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations and approaches • The volume demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery of common grounds

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. • Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality • Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries • Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe • Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices