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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.