Recent Scholarship
Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity
Bergland, Renée L., “Urania’s Inversion: Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and the Strange History of Women Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America,” Signs, 34 (Autumn 2008), 75–99.
Chisholm, Ann, “Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women and Incorporations of Buoyancy: Contouring Femininity, Shaping Sex, and Regulating Middle-Class Consumption,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 84–112.
Fernández-Kelly, Patricia, “Gender and Economic Change in the United States and Mexico, 1900–2000,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (Nov. 2008), 377–404.
Hassel, Holly, “‘Intellectual Loves Rube!’: Class, Gender, and Alcohol in Jean Stafford’s ‘Children Are Bored on Sunday,’” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 815–32.
Hoffert, Sylvia D., “Female Self-Making in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 34–59.
Kahn, Edward, “Desdemona and the Role of Women in the Antebellum North,” Theatre Journal, 60 (May 2008), 235–55.
McGee, Kristin, “The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All-Girl Bands: The Case of the Ingenues,” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 629–62.
Miyamoto, Natsuki, “Satokibi batake no onnatachi” (Women on sugar plantations: Japanese migrant women in Hawaii and the Oahu strike of 1920), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 19–31. In Japanese.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M., “Who Chased Out the ‘Chili Queens’? Gender, Race, and Urban Reform in San Antonio, Texas, 1880–1943,” Food & Foodways, 16 (July 2008), 173–200.
Sowinska, Alicja, “Ambiguous Women: Debates within American Evangelical Feminism,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 167–80.
Tinkler, Penny, and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, “Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 113–43.
Voss, Barbara L., “Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire,” American Anthropologist, 110 (June 2008), 191–203.
DeGruccio, Michael E., “Unmade: American Manhood in the Civil War Era” (University of Notre Dame, 2007). Order No. DA3299135.
Gottschall, William Peter, Jr., “Imaging Men, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising: Ideological and Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinity and Fatherhood in Magazine Advertising (1960–2000)” (Carleton University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR36787.
Grube, Melinda E., “Burned-Over Thealogy Context and Process in Matilda Joslyn Gage’s Gynocentric History” (Union Institute & University, 2007). Order No. DA3293422.
Lechtman, Zohar, “Gendering Chicago Politics: Institutionalization of Women in Positions of Power” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300438.
Olson, Gregory Thomas, “Civilizing Men: Protestant Religion in Gold Rush San Francisco, 1848–1856” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296161.
Ondercin, Heather Louise, “The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953–2003” (Pennsylvania State University, 2007). Order No. DA3299034.
Hagemann, Karen, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde, eds., Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (New York: Berghahn, 2008. xii, 324 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-1-84545-437-1.)
Toyota, Maho, Senryoka no joseiroodo kaikaku (Women’s labor reform under the occupation). (Tokyo: Keiso shobo, 2007. 266 pp. ¥3465, isbn 4-3266-4875-9.) In Japanese.
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