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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

Cohen, Michael David, “‘What Gender Is Lex’? Women, Men, and Power Relations in Colleges of the Nineteenth Century,” History of Higher Education Annual, 24 (2005), 41–90.

Diprete, Thomas A., and Claudia Buchmann, “Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion,” Demography, 43 (Feb. 2006), 1–24.

DuBois, Ellen Carol, “Three Decades of Women’s History,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 47–64.

Mieras, Emily, “Tales from the Other Side of the Bridge: ymca Manhood, Social Class, and Social Reform in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,” Gender & History (Oxford), 17 (Aug. 2005), 409–40.

Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M., “A Feminist Theoretical Approach to the Historical Archaeology of Utopian Communities,” Historical Archaeology, 40 (no. 1, 2006), 152–85.

 

Denial, Catherine Jane, “‘A proper light before the country’: The Shifting Politics of Gender and Kinship among the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Non-Native Communities of the Upper Midwest, 1825–1845” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3184704.

Helgren, Jennifer Hillman, “Inventing American Girlhood: Gender and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Camp Fire Girls” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). Order No. DA3179500.

Hunter, Latham, “The Celluloid Cubicle: Constructions of Masculinity in 1990s Office Movies” (McMaster University, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANQR04239.

Meredith, Sarah, “With a Banjo on Her Knee: Gender, Race, Class, and the American Classical Banjo Tradition, 1880–1915” (Florida State University, 2003). Order No. DA3183093.

Shukalo, Alice Marie, “Communing with the Gods: Bodybuilding, Masculinity, and U.S. Imperialism, 1875–1900” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3183973.

Strand, Amy Dunham, “Governing Voices: Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178113.

 

Carroll, Susan J., and Richard L. Fox, eds., Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 223 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-521-84492-4. Paper, $22.99, isbn 0-521-60670-5.)

Gardaphé, Fred L., From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xx, 244 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 0-415-94647-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-415-94648-4.)

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