Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- 2 “Exhausting the Earth”: environment and history in the early modern world
- 3 Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
- 4 Technological transitions
- 5 Patterns of urbanization, 1400 to 1800
- 6 Gender and sexuality
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
6 - Gender and sexuality
from Part One - Global matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- 2 “Exhausting the Earth”: environment and history in the early modern world
- 3 Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900
- 4 Technological transitions
- 5 Patterns of urbanization, 1400 to 1800
- 6 Gender and sexuality
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
Gender is a very old conceptual category, but a relatively new framework for historical analysis. Sexuality is also a relatively new category of historical study, inspired in part by the gay liberation movement that began in the 1970s. This chapter focuses on three topics that each involved both gender and sexuality: migration, intermarriage and the cross-cultural blending that resulted from these; third- and transgenders; and religious transformations. The contacts between cultures before 1400 that changed gender structures had often been carried out through the transmission of ideas and construction of institutions by individuals or small groups of people. Laws regarding intermarriage were usually framed in gender-neutral language by lawmakers. Migration not only brought men and women from different groups together, but also introduced explorers, soldiers, settlers and officials to individuals who were understood in their own societies to be a third or fourth gender.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 133 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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