Recent Scholarship
Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity
Berry, Daina Ramey, “‘In Pressing Need of Cash’: Gender, Skill, and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 22–36.
Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel, “Nineteenth-Century Methodists and Coeducation: The Case of Hamline University,” Methodist History, 47 (Oct. 2008), 48–62.
Blue, Ethan, “The Strange Career of Leo Stanley: Remaking Manhood and Medicine at San Quentin State Penitentiary, 1913–1951,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (May 2009), 213–41.
Burns, Chris, “Between This Time and That Sweet Time of Grace: The Diary of Mandana White Goodenough,” Vermont History, 77 (Winter–Spring 2009), 37–56.
Campbell, Donna, “A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick’s Out of Bohemia and the Artists’ Novel of the 1890s,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 257–85.
Cavanaugh, Jennifer Jones, “Hooray for What! A Glimpse into the Golden Age of Sexual Harassment,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Fall 2008), 5–28.
Clifford, Deborah P., “‘A Lady Should Study, Not to Shine, but to Act’: The Education of Mary Catherine Winchester,” Vermont History, 77 (Winter–Spring 2009), 16–36.
D’Amore, Laura Mattoon, “Invisible Girl’s Quest for Visibility: Early Second Wave Feminism and the Comic Book Superheroine,” Americana, 7 (Fall 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Elmwood, Victoria A., “‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me’: Gendered Nationalism and Textual Sovereignty in the Autobiographies of Iceberg Slim and Malcolm X,” Soundings, 90 (Fall–Winter 2007), 245–71.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth, “Writing That Old Moonshine Lit: Gender, Power, and Nation in Unexpected Places,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 49–74.
Fraser, Nancy, “Feminism Co-opted: Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History,” New Left Review (London), 56 (March–April 2009), 97–117.
Gordon, Terri J., “Film in the Second Degree: Cabaret and the Dark Side of Laughter,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Dec. 2008), 440–65.
de Graaf, Melissa J., “‘Never Call Us Lady Composers’: Gendered Receptions in the New York Composers’ Forum, 1935–1940,” American Music, 26 (Fall 2008), 277–308.
Hudson, Lynn M., “Entertaining Citizenship: Masculinity and Minstrelsy in Post-emancipation San Francisco,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 174–97.
Kearney, Mary Celeste, “Coalescing: The Development of Girls’ Studies,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 21 (Spring 2009), 1–28.
Massey, Carissa, “Appalachian Stereotypes: Cultural History, Gender, and Sexual Rhetoric,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 13 (Spring–Fall 2007), 124–36.
McWilliams, James E., “Butter, Milk, and a ‘Spare Ribb’: Women’s Work and the Transatlantic Economic Transition in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” New England Quarterly, 82 (March 2009), 5–24.
Meeuf, Russell, “John Wayne as ‘Supercrip’: Disabled Bodies and the Construction of ‘Hard’ Masculinity in The Wings of Eagles,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Winter 2009), 88–113.
Ryan, Patrick A., and Sevan G. Terzian, “Our Miss Brooks: Broadcasting Domestic Ideals for the Female Teacher in the Postwar United States,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 21 (Spring 2009), 76–100.
Van Cleave, Kendra, “Fashioning the College Woman: Dress, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College in the 1920s,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 4–15.
Werden, Douglas, “Stereotypes, Lies, and Crass Humor: When Men Write about Women Homesteaders in Oklahoma Land Runs,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Fall 2008), 328–48.
Wetzel, Grace, “Contradictory Subtexts in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Fall 2008), 277–91.
Wigginton, Caroline, “A Late Night Vindication: Annis Boudinot Stockton’s Reading of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 225–38.
Brown, Melissa Tracey, “Enlisting Masculinity: Gender and the Recruitment of the All-Volunteer Force” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319594.
Dowland, Seth, “Defending Manhood: Gender, Social Order, and the Rise of the Christian Right in the South, 1965–1995” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3321832.
Farmer, Angela, “Monsters, Men, and Machines: Gender in Literature and Film, 1942–1962” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3317311.
McKinnon, Sara Lynn, “The Discursive Formation of Gender in Women’s Gendered Claims to U.S. Asylum” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318436.
Schauer, Terrie, “Spectacles of Prison: Masculinities, Punishment, and Social Order in U.S. Screen Prison Drama, 1995–2005” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR41025.
Vander Wel, Stephanie, “‘I Am a Honky-Tonk Girl’: Country Music, Gender, and Migration” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3316985.
Voeller, Carey R., “Masculine Interludes: Monstrosity and Compassionate Manhood in American Literature, 1845–1899” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3316125.
Wermedal, Douglas R., “It Was Once So: Gender and Generation in College Yearbook Photos” (South Dakota State University, 2008). Order No. DA3322420.
Wrisley, Melyssa, “Fashioning a New Femininity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Discourses of Dress, Gender, and Sexuality, 1875–1930” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 200l). Order No. DA3315233.
Bercaw, Nancy, and Ted Ownby, eds., The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol 13: Gender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xx, 387 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3287-5. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5948-3.)
Leavitt, Judith Walzer, Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 385 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3255-4.)
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