Radical Relations

Daniel Winunwe Rivers

• Hardcover | Gender and American Culture
• Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II Lees meer

Too Much to Ask

Elizabeth Higginbotham

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United... Lees meer

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America

Francesca Morgan

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sen... Lees meer

Against Sex

Kara M French

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, th... Lees meer

The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Kate Haulman

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fash... Lees meer

Making Home Work

Jane E Simonsen

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Nativ... Lees meer

Archives of Desire

J Samaine Lockwood

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement kno... Lees meer

The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Kate Haulman

• Hardcover | Gender and American Culture
• In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion - ... Lees meer

Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Laura Micheletti Puaca

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms "technocratic feminism" traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War... Lees meer

The Struggle for Equal Adulthood

Corinne T Field

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corin... Lees meer

Relative Intimacy

Rachel Devlin

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American socie... Lees meer

Liberated Threads

Tanisha C Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, h... Lees meer

Crescent City Girls

Lakisha Michelle Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural stud... Lees meer

Citizen, Mother, Worker

Emilie Stoltzfus

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs. A... Lees meer

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy During the Vietnam War Era

Jessica M Frazier

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace ac... Lees meer

Mobilizing New York

Tamar W Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and c... Lees meer

Masterful Women

Kirsten E Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family... Lees meer

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy During the Vietnam War Era

Jessica M Frazier

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace ac... Lees meer

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

Nancy Isenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca... Lees meer

Taking Haiti

Mary A Renda

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with... Lees meer

Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline... Lees meer

Doing Literary Business

Susan Coultrap-McQuin

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of... Lees meer

Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics

Estelle B Freedman

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion in... Lees meer

Free Hearts and Free Homes

Michael D Pierson

• Paperback | Engels | Gender and American Culture
• By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized o... Lees meer