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Mysteries of sex : tracing women and men through American history /

In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history, perceptions of sex difference were translated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryan, Mary P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. I. Making sex in America : 1500-1900
  • 1. Where have the corn mothers gone? : Americans encounter the Europeans
  • The coordinates of gender : asymmetry, the relations of the sexes, and hierarchy
  • The sexual frontier
  • Warriors and farmers on the gender frontier
  • 2. Who baked that apple pie and when? : how domesticity conquered American culture
  • The prehistory of feminine domesticity : 1620-1692
  • Between patriarchy and domesticity : 1750-1840
  • Homemaking in antebellum and Victorian America
  • 3. How did race get colored? : gender and sexuality in the American South
  • How slavery became colored African American
  • The gendering of slave society
  • Civil war and the reconstruction of race and gender
  • The sexual politics of Jim Crow
  • pt. II. Dividing the public realm
  • 4. What is the sex of citizenship? : engendering the American political tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal
  • When citizenship was male : 1776-1865
  • The mother as citizen : segregated and secondary
  • The woman citizen goes to Washington
  • Second-class citizenship : male and female
  • pt. III. Women remake gender in the twentieth century
  • 5. How do you get from home to work to equity? : 1900-1960
  • Who made the woman worker? : an overview
  • The new woman goes to work : 1890-1940
  • A private detour through the 1920s
  • The next generation combines work and family : the 1940s and 1950s
  • The mystery of the feminine mystique
  • 6. Where does sex divide? : feminism, sexuality, and the structures of gender since 1960
  • The second wave of feminism : 1960-1970
  • Sexual revolution and gay rights
  • Restructuring gender differences : 1980-2000
  • 7. Where in the world is the border between male and female? : immigration and generation in the twentieth century
  • The generations of gender
  • New immigrants meet postmodernity : 1965-2000
  • Joining together to remake male, female, and America.