Full Description
This book is a survey of world history that explores diverse women's and gender history at the secondary reading level. With sample lesson plans and teaching activities, this guide aligns with curriculum and content already taught in secondary schools.
The book spans prehistory to the end of the 20th century, highlighting the lives of women in every region of the world, elite rulers and peasant women, as well as queer, trans, and non-binary people where known and relevant. The text is packed with primary source visuals to enhance student comprehension and make connections between the text and the real women who lived these stories. Each chapter concludes with an inquiry-based lesson plan for students and teachers to use that explores primary source material surrounding a compelling question, which is best practice according to the National Council for the Social Studies. The book also includes teacher guides on how to teach with the lesson plans, introductory activities, and teacher tips.
This is a key resource for secondary social studies teachers to integrate women's and gender history into their current World History curriculum.
Contents
1. Introduction: To 15,000 Before Gendered Constructs 2. To 15,000 Mother Earth and Great Goddesses? 3. 10,000 BCE The Agricultural Revolution: A Great Mistake? 4. 4,000-1000 BCE Women in the First City States 5. 800-400 BCE European Founding Myths and Women's Place 6. 800-300 BCE Asian Philosophies and Women's Place 7. 100 BCE - 100 CE Women and the Roman Empire 8. 100 BCE - 100 CE Women and the Han Empire 9. One Male God Over Women 10. 100-500 Women Travelers and Merchants on the Silk Roads 11. 300-900 The Age of Queens and Empresses 12. 700-1200 The Golden Age of Islam 13. 1000-1500 Women and Feudalism in Europe and Japan 14. 900-1200 Women Crusaders and Stabilizers 15. 1200-1400 Mongol Women in a Pastoral World 16. 1300-1500 Renaissance and Ottoman Women Artists and Thinkers 17. 1000-1600 Gender Dynamis in the New Worlds 18. 1000-1600 Women Explorers and Leaders 19. 1450-1600 Women and the Reformation 20. 1500-1600 Encounters in the New World 21. 1500-1600 Gender, Sexuality, and the Slave Trade 22. 1700-1850 The Enlightenment and Women 23. 1600-1850 Cloistered Women in Asia 24. 1850-1950 Women's Industrial Revolution 25. 1850-1950 Women's Lives Under Imperialism 26. 1900-1930 Women's Worlds in Collision 27. 1930-1950 Women and Global War 28. 1950-1990 Decolonizing Women 29. 1950-1980 Transnational Feminism
