Recent Scholarship
Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity
Baritono, Raffaella, “Il femminismo americano degli anni ’60: Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, Kate Millet, Robin Morgan, Frances Beal e Gloria Anzaldúa” (American feminism in the sixties: Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, Kate Millet, Robin Morgan, Francesca Beal, and Gloria Anzaldúa), Storicamente (Bologna), 4 (Dec. 2008), http://www.storicamente.org/index.htm. In Italian.
Chatterjee, Choi, “‘Odds and Ends of the Russian Revolution,’ 1917–1920: Gender and American Travel Narratives,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 10–33.
Cunningham, Mick, “Changing Attitudes toward the Male Breadwinner, Female Homemaker Family Model: Influences of Women’s Employment and Education over the Lifecourse,” Social Forces, 87 (Sept. 2008), 299–323.
Curwood, Anastasia, “A Fresh Look at E. Franklin Frazier’s Sexual Politics in The Negro Family in the United States,” Du Bois Review, 5 (March 2008), 325–37.
Johnson, Colin R., “Camp Life: The Queer History of ‘Manhood’ in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1937,” American Studies, 48 (Summer 2007), 19–35.
Laville, Helen, “A New Era in International Women’s Rights? American Women’s Associations and the Establishment of the un Commission on the Status of Women,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (Winter 2008), 34–56.
Matlok-Ziemann, Ellen, “Southern Fairy Tales: Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Princess’ and Carson McCullers’s ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café,’” Mississippi Quarterly, 60 (Spring 2007), 257–72.
Pappas, Robin, “H. D. and Havelock Ellis: Popular Science and the Gendering of Thought and Vision,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 151–82.
Scanlon, Jennifer, “Sexy from the Start: Anticipatory Elements of Second Wave Feminsm,” Women’s Studies, 38 (March 2009), 127–50.
Sehat, David, “Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 7 (July 2008), 325–52.
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel, “Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s,” Social History of Medicine (Oxford), 21 (Aug. 2008), 329–44.
Conner, Robin S., “Gendered Garrisons: Masculinity, Femininity, and Class Identity in the Post–Civil War Western Army, 1865–1898” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310247.
Figueroa Rubero, Norma Isabel, “The Masculine Construction of the Profession and Women Architects in Practice in Puerto Rico, from 1960 to 1979” (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, 2008). Order No. DA3305732.
John, Caresse A., “Narrating Choices: The Significance of Technique in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3310693.
Kernan, Barbara L., “Edith Wharton in the Art and ‘Act of Making a Habitation for Herself’” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314187.
Legath, Jennifer Anne Wiley, “The Phoebe Phenomenon: The Protestant Deaconess Movement in the United States, 1880–1930” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3305301.
Photos, Lisa E., “Cleaning Up: Representations of Housework and Womanhood in Antebellum America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314389.
Scott, William Ramsey, “Dressing Down: Modernism, Masculinity, and the Men’s Leisurewear Industry in California, 1930–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306335.
Tanglen, Randi Lynn, “Reconfiguring Religion, Race, and the Female Body Politic in American Fiction by Women, 1859–1911” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3307979.
O’Brien, Jodi, ed., Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. Vol. 1: xxxii, 496 pp. Vol. 2: xx, 479 pp. $315.00, isbn 978-1-4129-0916-7.)
Ramírez, Catherine S., The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xxvi, 229 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4286-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4303-5.)
Rustin, Nichole T., and Sherrie Tucker, eds., Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 460 pp. Cloth, $94.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4336-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4320-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
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