A Companion to Global Gender History

Julie Hardwickis Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Practice of Patriarchy: The Politics of Household Life in Early Modern France (1998), Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economy of Daily Life in Early Modern France (2009), and Sex in an Old Regime City: Young People, Intimacy and Work in France, 1660–1789 (2020).

Raevin Jimenezis LSA (Literature, Science, and Arts) Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan‐Ann Arbor. She specializes in precolonial African history, and is currently working on a book Guard against the Cannibals: Gender, Generation, and Political Identity in Southern Africa, 9th‐19th Century .

Rosemary A. Joyceis Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her experience as a field archaeologist conducting research in Honduras and Mexico, and as a museum anthropologist examining collections in museums through Europe and North America, informs her work on the way that sex and gender are shaped and anchored through materials ranging from clothing and jewelry to images depicting gendered stereotypes. She is the author of ten books including Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2001), Embodied Lives (with Lynn Meskell; 2003), and Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives (2008).

Darlene M. Juschkais Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Religious and Critical Studies at the University of Regina. Her areas of interest are semiotics, critical theory, feminisms, and posthumanism. Some of her more recent work includes “Feminisms and the Study of Religion in the 21st Century,” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (2018), “Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion,” in Richard King, ed., Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches (2017), and “Indigenous Women and Reproductive Justice – A Narrative,” in Carrie Bourassa, Betty McKenna and Darlene Juschka, eds., Listening to the Beat of our Drum: Stories in Indigenous Parenting in Contemporary Society (2017).

Amy Kallanderis Associate Professor of Middle East History and affiliated faculty with the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University. Her first book, Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia (2013) examines the political, economic, and social roles of elite women between 1700 and 1900. She is currently working on a book examining gender and modern womanhood in the Middle East and Tunisia in particular in the global 1960s.

Linda Kealeyis Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, Canada specializing in Canadian women’s history with particular focus on labour, left‐wing politics and health. She is the editor or co‐editor of several volumes on Canadian women’s history, a former co‐editor of the Canadian Historical Review and former co‐editor (2003–2006) of Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal .

Deirdre Keenanis Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Carroll College, where she taught Postcolonial Literature, American Indian Studies, Milton, and Renaissance Literature.

Susan Kingsley Kentis an Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of numerous books, including Gender and Power in Britain, 1640–1990 (1999), Gender and History (2011), and, most recently, Gender: A World History, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Sonya Lipsett‐Riverais Professor of History at Carleton University in Canada. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 (2012) and The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (2019).

Barbara Molonyis Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author or editor of a number of works that examine Japan and East Asia in a transnational perspective, including (with Kathleen Uno) Gendering Modern Japanese History (2005), (with Janet Theiss and Hyaeweol Choi) Gender in Modern East Asia (2015), and (with Jennifer Nelson) Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism: Transnational Histories (2017).

Robert A. Nyeis Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History Emeritus at Oregon State University. He is the author of Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (1993, 1998) and an Oxford reader, Sexuality (1999).

Vivian‐Lee Nyitrayis Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director, the University of California Education Abroad Programs. Prior to this she was a member of the Religious Studies faculty at UC Riverside. Her publications include The Life of Chinese Religion (2004), co‐edited with Ron Guey Chu, and the forthcoming Women and Chinese Religion: Persuasion and Power .

Jocelyn Olcottis the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and a Professor of History and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005) and International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness‐Raising Event in History (2017), and co‐editor with Mary Kay Vaughan and Gabriela Cano of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (2006; in translation 2009).

Karen Petroneis Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (2000) and The Great War in Russian Memory (2011), and co‐editor of Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship (2011). She is currently at work on a book on war memory in Putin's Russia.

Allyson M. Poskais Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia and the author of four books, including Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (2016), winner of the 2017 best book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (2005), winner of the 2006 Roland H. Bainton Prize for best book in early modern history or theology.

Meha Priyadarshiniis a Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of Edinburgh. She studies the connections between colonial Latin America and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the material culture of the transoceanic exchanges.

Utsa Rayis an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is the author of Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle Class (2015) and has published widely in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Indian Economic and Social History Review . She is also a part of the Gastronomica Editorial Collective.

Sean Reddingis Zephaniah Swift Moore Professor of History at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she researches and writes on South African rural history. She is the author of Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963 (2006) and is working on a book‐length manuscript entitled “Violence, Gender and the Reconstruction of Tradition in Rural South Africa, 1880–1965.”

Meghan K. Robertsis Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, where she teaches early modern European history. She is the author of Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France (2016) and is currently working on a study of eighteenth‐century medical practitioners.