Description: "Now organized chronologically rather than topically, this extensively revised third edition addresses the gender implications of contemporary issues including the global COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide cultural and economic shifts. Chapters offer ... insights into the role of gender in the development of agriculture, the growth of cities and political structures, the spread of world religions, colonialism and imperialism, cultural and political revolutions, changing ideas of race, class, and sexuality, and many other topics"--Publisher marketing.