From Brazil to Germany, New York to Ghana, Dialogues of Dispersal examines intersections of gender and sexuality within Afro-diasporic communities.

• Considers communities in Brazil, the Caribbean, Germany, the UK, the US and West Africa, and how they overlap.
  
• Contains innovative analyses of knowledge production, globalization, popular culture, identity, colonialism, maternalism, dress, and transnational networks.
  
• Features interdisciplinary work by both established and emerging scholars.
  
• Acknowledges the accomplishments and...

Through a collection of essays by leading scholars on women's history and gender history, Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation questions conventional chronologies while reassessing the relationship between gender, agency, continuity and change.

• Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History
• Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. For example, whether the European Renaissance can be classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the...

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,...

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...