320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and accompanied by headnotes and study questions, the essays offer a clear and engaging introduction for the non-specialist. The introduction describes the emergence of gender as a subject of historical investigation and in ten essays, historians explore the meanings and significance of... Read more
Part One Sexuality and Gender: Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression, Christina Simmons; Sexual Geography and Gender Economy - The Furnished Room Districts of Chicago, 1890-1930, Joanne Meyerowitz; Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I, Era George Chauncey Jr; The Meanings of Lesbianism in Post-War America, Donna Penn. Part Two Work and Consumption in Visual Representations: Art, the New Woman, and Consumer Culture - Kenneth Hayes Miller and Reginald Marsh on 14th Street, 1920-1940, Ellen Wiley Todd; Manly Work - Public Art and Masculinity in Depression America, Barbara Melosh; Gendered Labour - Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter and the Discourses of Wartime Femininity, Melissa Dabakis. Part III Gender as Political Language Civilization, the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Anti-Lynching Campaign (1892-1894): Disorderly Women - Gender and Labour Militancy in the Appalchian South, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall; Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control, Lynda Gordon.
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Barbara Melosh
