Gender and American History Since 1890

ISBN-13: 9781138428898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Barbara Melosh

Opis

The volume shows how the interpretation of gender expands and revises our understanding of significant issues in twentieth-century history, such as work, labour protest, sexuality, consumption and social welfare.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Barbara Melosh