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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

 

Allen, Ryan, “Benefit or Burden? Social Capital, Gender, and the Economic Adaptation of Refugees,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 332–65.

Bedore, Pamela, “Queer Investigations: Foxy Ladies and Dandy Detectives in American Dime Novels,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Fall 2008), 19–38.

Cochran, Bambi L. Ray, “Rowena Spencer: A Study of Changing Gender Roles in Twentieth-Century Louisiana Medicine,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 286–302. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)

Frederick, Brian, “Are Female House Members Still More Liberal in a Polarized Era? The Conditional Nature of the Relationship between Descriptive and Substantive Representation,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 181–202.

Frink, Sandra, “Women, the Family, and the Fate of the Nation in American Anti-Catholic Narratives, 1830–1860,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (May 2009), 237–64.

Geertsema, Margaretha, “Gender Mainstreaming in International News: A Case Study of the Inter Press Service,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2009), 65–84.

Goto, Chiori, “Kazoku fuyo o meguru jenda poritikusu: 20 seiki shoto no fukushi shiho to hinkon katei no kankei” (The gender politics of family support in early-twentieth-century America: The relationship between welfare law and poor families), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 43 (2009), 97–114. In Japanese.

Hornsby-Gutting, Angela M., “Manning the Region: New Approaches to Gender in the South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 663–76.

Kaneko, Ayumu, “Dansei no tekishi’ kara ‘jenda-ka sareta rekishigaku’ e: Amerikashi kenkyu niokeru danseisei no ichi” (From the ‘history of men’ to ‘gendered history’: The place of masculinity in the study of American history), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (May 2008), 28–37. In Japanese.

Kaneko, Ayumu, “Otokorashiku baketsu o orosu: Bukka T. Washington no ‘jinshuteki hikisage’ ideorogi ni okero ‘otokorashisa’ to kaikyu” (To cast down a bucket like a man: ‘Manhood’ and class ideology of ‘racial cast-down’), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (Sept. 2008), 21–31. In Japanese.

Kelleher, Patricia, “Class and Catholic Irish Masculinity in Antebellum America: Young Men on the Make in Chicago,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Summer 2009), 7–42.

Kerber, Linda K., “Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 56–66.

Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon, and Clyde R. Forsberg, “Performing the Lodge: Masonry, Masculinity, and Nineteenth-Century North American Moral Geography,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (July 2009), 451–72.

Moller, Stephanie, and Huiping Li, “Parties, Unions, Policies, and Occupational Sex Segregation in the United States,” Social Forces, 87 (March 2009), 1529–60.

Norwood, Stephen H., “‘American Jewish Muscle’: Forging a New Masculinity in the Streets and in the Ring, 1890–1940,” Modern Judaism, 29 (May 2009), 167–93.

Sakamoto, Tatsuro, “1920 Nedai no Amerika Josei Daigakujin Kyokai (aauw) no akuredideshon: Fakaruti niokeru jenda no byodo o chushin ni” (Integrating gender into accreditation: The American Assocation of University Women’s effort to achieve gender equity in university faculty in the 1920s), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 36–53. In Japanese.

Wolfinger, Nicholas H., Mary Ann Mason, and Marc Goulden, “Stay in the Game: Gender, Family Formation, and Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course,” Social Forces, 87 (March 2009), 1591–621.

Woods, Clinton Jacob, “Strange Bedfellows: Congressman Howard W. Smith and the Inclusion of Sex Discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 1–32.

 

Gruenwald, Jacqueline C., “Revising Gender Roles: The De-evolution of the Heroine in the Film Adaptations of Edna Ferber” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3320328.

Johnson, Lakesia D., “The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325579.

Jones, Sheila, “Not ‘Part of the Job’: Sexual Harassment Policy in the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Women’s Economic Citizenship, 1975–1991” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326252.

Jordan, Jessica Hope, “Sex and the Goddess: Hyper-femininity in American Film” (University of California, Davis, 2008).

Keller, Susan Lynn, “Making Up Modernity: Fashioning the Feminine in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Culture” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3330475.

Lowenthal, Kristi, “Conservative Thought and the Equal Rights Amendment in Kansas” (Kansas State University, 2008). Order No. DA3320257.

Moser, Joseph Paul, “Patriarchs, Pugilists, and Peacemakers: Interrogating Masculinity in Irish Film” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3324482.

Reinhard, Diana T., “Bodies on Display: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Culture of American Medicine, 1870–1920” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326372.

Wittman, Barbara Kathleen, “A Community of Letters: A Quaker Woman’s Correspondence and the Making of the American Frontier, 1791–1824” (University of Akron, 2008). Order No. DA3323988.

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