Diskriminierung von Frauen: Woher kommt das Patriarchat?
In ihrem Buch Gender in History: Global Perspectives beschreibt Wiesner-Hanks, dass diese Form der Gewalt, die während der Neolithischen ...
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„Die Gruppen waren damals hochgradig flexibel, insbesondere in Zeiten der Knappheit. Männer, Frauen und Kinder taten also, was immer nötig war, um das Überleben der Gruppe zu sichern”, sagt die Historikerin <anchor>Merry Wiesner-Hanks</anchor> von der University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, die seit Jahren zur Geschichte der Geschlechterrollen forscht.
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# Merry Wiesner-Hanks

- **Distinguished Professor Emerita**, _History_

## Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

## Courses Taught

- Hist 131 - World History to 1500
- Hist 241 - European Women’s History, 1300-1750
- Hist 600 - Renaissance and Reformation; Gender and Colonialism
- Hist 716 - Professional and Pedagogical Issues in History

## Research Interests

My research, writing, and teaching have been closely related. I began my career as a historian of early modern Europe, with a research focus on women’s work in Germany. When I moved to UWM, my teaching responsibilities came to include the history of Christianity, and my research interests also increasingly focused on religion, especially issues of gender and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. At the same time, I began to write and publish various types of source books designed for use in the classroom and to teach courses in world history. This took me into geographic areas and time periods far away from early modern Europe, and my research expanded as well, becoming global as well as European. Since 2000, I have worn these two hats, one as a historian of early modern Europe and the other as a world/global historian, with a primary focus on women, gender, and sexuality within these.

## Professional Service

Senior Editor, _Sixteenth Century Journal_ Editor, _Journal of Global History_ National Advisory Board, Society for History Education World History Association Book Prize Committee

## Selected Publications

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.“Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective” _Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations_ Ed. Rublack, Ulinka. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2017): 747-764.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_A Concise History of the World_]({http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/concise-history-world}) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015.

. [_A History of World Societies_]({http://www.macmillanhighered.com/Catalog/product/historyofworldsocietiesvaluecombinedvolume-tenthedition-mckay}) 10th ed.. Ed. McKay, John P., Buckley Ebrey, Patricia , Beck, Roger B., Hara Crowston, Clare , Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Davila, Jerry. Bedford/St. Martins. 2015.

. [_Cambridge World History_]({http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/regional-and-world-history-general-interest/cambridge-world-history}) 7 volumes in 9 books. Ed. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015.

. [_Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World_]({http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781472429605&lang=cy-GB}) Ed. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2015.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., Evans, Andrew D., Wheeler, William B., and Ruff, Julius R. [_Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence_]({http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=16&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=1965767751379225261907456735254056912&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial}) 7th ed.. Boston: Cengage. 2014.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789_]({http://www.cambridge.org/features/wiesnerhanks/default.html}) 2nd ed.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013.

. [_Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy_]({http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806919}) Ed. Paik, Peter Y., and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2013.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice_]({ http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415491891/}) 2nd ed.. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 2010.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_Gender in History: Global Perspectives_]({http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405189959.html}) 2nd ed.. London : Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds_]({http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300127331}) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2009.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. [_Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe_]({http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/women-and-gender-early-modern-europe-3rd-edition}) 3rd ed.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008.

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