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Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, Gender, Kinship and Power places important contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework.

Addresses the question of what world history would look like when the family is at the centre of the story.

This book addresses the question of what world history looks like when the family is at the center of the story. People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically over time and across cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon - it has a history. Maynes and Waltner chart this history over the course of 10, 000 years, across the globe, drawing on telling examples and rich sources.

This is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism.

Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: Life Course and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era and author or coeditor of several other books. Jennifer L. Pierce is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms and coeditor of...

Explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use.

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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills offers a comparative history of Europeangirlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. It coversdiverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles inthe family and the economy. A corrective to historians' traditionally maleorientation toward youth, the volume brings girls to the center of European history, emphasizing their importance in European economics a...