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Gender, Masculinity, and Femininity

 

Araki, Wakako, “Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 221–38.

Sato, Chitose, “Hahaoya Nenkin kara Jido Hojo e: 1935nen Shakai-Hoshou-ho to Jendani kansuru Ichi Kosatsu” (From mothers’ pension to aid to dependent children: Gender in the United States Social Security Act of 1935), Jenda Shigaku (Tokyo), 3 (2007), 45–56. In Japanese.

Shaheen, Aaron, “I Have Heard the Mermaids Screaming: Modern Femininity and Donald Davidson’s Attempt to Form an All-Male Coterie of Southern Letters,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 49–68.

 

Cruz, Denise, “Transpacific Femininities: Unmapping the Narratives of Philippine-U.S. Contact” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288207.

Durham, Aisha S., “Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290225.

Espino, Virginia Rose, “Women Sterilized as They Give Birth: Population Control, Eugenics, and Social Protest in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287938.

Gasser, Erika Anne, “Manhood, Witchcraft, and Possession in Old and New England” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287516.

Gerardo, Galadriel Mehera, “Misunderstood Masculinities: Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in World War II Los Angeles” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3288190.

Hill, Robert S., “‘As a Man I Exist; As a Woman I Live’: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287538.

Jones, Leigh Ann, “Common Destiny: Rhetorical Constructions of U.S. Masculine Nationalism from the Boy Scouts to President Bush” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3289144.

Nelson, Cristina Rosa, “‘In the Service of Femininity’: American Foundation Garments from World War II to the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289065.

Rosen, Jody Rachel, “‘People Don’t Want to Marry Me. People Want to Marry Me. I Don’t Want to Marry People’: Marriage-Plot Subversion through Repetition in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288750.

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