Gender and American History Since 1890

by Melosh,Barbara; Melosh,Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780415076760
• ISBN10: 0415076765
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The volume shows how the interpretation of gender expands and revises our understanding of significant issues in twentieth-century history, such as work, labor protest, sexuality, consumption and social welfare.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Sexuality and Gender	p. 15
Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression	p. 17
Sexual Geography and Gender Economy	p. 43
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion?	p. 72
The Meanings of Lesbianism in Postwar America	p. 106
Work and Consumption in Visual Representations	p. 125
Art, the "New Woman," and Consumer Culture	p. 127
Manly Work	p. 155
Gendered Labor	p. 182
Gender as Political Language	p. 205
Civilization, the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Anti-Lynching Campaign (1892-94)	p. 207
Disorderly Women	p. 240
Notes	p. 268
Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control	p. 282
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