A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ulrike Freitag (review)

on colonial Latin America the book could have expanded more on the ties between gender and honor. And with the section onWestern films, a discussion of who went to see these films would be welcome—they seemed to have a wide audience in Europe, but was this audience mostly men? Mostly middle class? Do we know what the consumers of these films thought about them? Though both Kent’s and Phoenix’s books do touch on issues of sexuality, a more systematic exploration in both books would be a welcome addition. Overall, it is wonderful to see both of these books on gender in world history designed for classroom use published this past year, in tandemwith the release of new editions of previous works likeWiesnerHanks’ and Stearns’. These publications and others, such as Candice Goucher’s four-volume reference workWomen Who Changed the World, also released in 2022, offer educators more options to look to when commencing the process of integrating gender or women’s experiences into existing world history courses. These resources also provide a broader springboard for faculty teaching courses focused specifically on women or gender in a global perspective. Hopefully this burst of literature is marking an expanding recognition and interest from world historians to further integrate these pivotal fields, and a growing commitment to bring the challenge of studying gender on a global level to the classroom.