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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

Bayers, Peter L., “William Apess’s Manhood and Native Resistance in Jacksonian America,” Melus, 31 (Spring 2006), 123–46.

Brown, Elspeth H., “Racialising the Virile Body: Eadweard Muybridge’s Locomotion Studies, 1883–87,” Gender & History (Oxford), 17 (Nov. 2005), 657–81.

Gonick, Marnina, “Between ‘Girl Power’ and ‘Reviving Ophelia’: Constituting the Neoliberal Girl Subject,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 18 (Summer 2006), 1–23.

Lee, Paula Young, “The Temperance Temple and Architectural Representation in Late–Nineteenth Century Chicago,” Gender & History (Oxford), 17 (Nov. 2005), 793–885.

Merithew, Caroline Waldron, “‘We Were Not Ladies’: Gender, Class, and a Women’s Auxiliary’s Battle for Mining Unionism,” Journal of Women’s History, 18 (no. 2, 2006), 63–94.

Wood, Gregory, “‘Beyond the Age of Earning’: Masculinity, Work, and Age Discrimination in the Automobile Industry, 1916–1939,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Summer 2006), 91–120.

 

Alphonso, Gwendoline Maria, “The Struggle to Transform the Gender and Penal Order in New York, 1780–1840: Creating Criminals, Subordinating Women, and Operating the Body” (Cornell University, 2006). Order No. DA3195811.

 

Gerstner, David A., Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xvi, 316 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 0-8223-3775-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8223-3763-0.)

Lavender, Catherine J., Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. viii, 248 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-3868-6.)

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