Recent Scholarship
Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity
Bowles, John P., “‘Acting Like a Man’: Adrian Piper’s Mythic Being and Black Feminism in the 1970s,” Signs, 32 (Spring 2007), 621–48.
Khattak, Saba Gul, et al., “Gender and Spirituality,” Signs, 32 (Spring 2007), 575–793.
Leffler, Phyllis, “Mr. Jefferson’s University: Women in the Village!,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 56–107.
Looby, Christopher, “Republican Bachelorhood: Sex and Citizenship in the Early United States,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 33 (Spring 2007), 89–100.
McCall, Madhavi, and Michael A. McCall, “How Far Does the Gender Gap Extend? Decision Making on State Supreme Courts in Fourth Amendment Cases, 1980–2000,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 67–82.
Nossiff, Rosemary, “Gendered Citizenship: Women, Equality, and Abortion Policy,” New Political Science, 29 (March 2007), 61–76.
Orr, Brooke Speer, “Mary Elizabeth Lease: Gendered Discourse and Populist Party Politics in Gilded Age America,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 246–65. Heavily illustrated.
Prescott, Cynthia Culver, “‘Why she didn’t marry him’: Love, Power, and Marital Choice on the Far Western Frontier,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 25–45.
Causey, Evelyn Douglas, “The Character of a Gentleman: Deportment, Piety, and Morality in Southern Colleges and Universities, 1820–1860” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220636.
Deitreich, Kenneth A., “Honor, Patriarcy, and Disunion: Masculinity and the Coming of the American Civil War” (West Virginia University, 2006). Order No. DA3225360.
Elmwood, Victoria A., “Playing Defense: Countercultural American Men’s Autobiography between the Atomic Bomb and the Reagan Era” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3219893.
Imsande, Jennifer Lynn, “The Perils of Protection: Gender and the Recasting of Rights in a Nation at War, 1860–1898” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225626.
Knaff, Donna B., “‘This girl in slacks’: Female Masculinity in the Popular Graphic Art of World War II” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220922.
Rensing, Susan Marie, “Feminist Eugenics in America: From Free Love to Birth Control, 1880–1930” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220029.
Thomson, Shawn, “Fortress of American Solitude: The Crusoe Topos in Nineteenth-Century America (1846–1885)” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222186.
Valcour, Francinne D., “Manipulating the Messenger: Wonder Woman as an American Female Icon” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220339.
Wood, Gregory John, “The Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the United States, 1910s–1950s” (University of Pittsburgh, 2006). Order No. DA3224065.
Kessler-Harris, Alice, Gendering Labor History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 374 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03149-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07393-9.)
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