World History

to 15,000 BCE Before Gendered Constructs

to 15,000 BCE Mother Earth and Great Goddesses 

10,000 BCE The Agricultural Revolution: A great mistake? 

4000-1000 BCE Domesticating Women in the First City-States 

800-400 BCE European Founding Myths and Women’s Place 

800-300 BCE Asian Philosophies and Women’s Place 

100 BCE - 100 CE Women and the Roman Empire

100 BCE - 100 CE Women and the Han Empire

One Male God over Women 

100-500 Women Travelers and Merchants on the Silk Road 

500-900 The Age of Queens and Empresses 

700-1200 The Golden Age of Islam 

900-1500 Women in Feudal Europe and Japan 

900-1200 Women Crusaders and Stabilizers 

1200-1400 Pastoral and Mongol Women 

1300-1500 Renaissance and Ottoman Women Thinkers

1000-1600 Gender Dynamics in New Worlds 

1000-1600 Women Explorers and Leaders 

1500-1600 Women and the Reformation 

1500-1800 Virgin Encounters in the New World

1600-1850 Gender, Sexuality and the Slave Trade 

1700-1850 The Enlightenment and Women 

1700-1850 Cloistered Women in Asia 

1850-1950 Women's Industrial Revolution

1850-1950 Women’s Lives under Imperialism 

1900-1930 Women's Worlds in Collision

 1930-1950 Women and the Global War

1950-1990 Decolonization

1950-1990 Transnational Feminism