The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

by Kitch, Sally L.

• ISBN13: 9781438427539
• ISBN10: 1438427530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-06
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.

Author Biography

Sally L. Kitch is Dean's Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The ""Purloined Letter"" of Gendered Race	p. 1
Roots
Introduction: As the Twig is Bent	p. 15
""Women are a Huge Natural Calamity"": The Roots of Western Gender Ideology	p. 17
The First Races in Society: Gendered Roots of Racial Formation	p. 27
Gendered Racial Institutions: World Slavery and Nationhood	p. 47
Conclusion: From Gender to Race	p. 57
Bodies
Introduction: Whose Too, Too Solid Flesh?	p. 61
The American ""Body Shop"": Gendered Racial Formation in the Colonies and New Republic	p. 65
Enslaved Bodies and Gendered Race	p. 77
Sexual Projection and Race: Science, Politics, and Lust	p. 89
Conclusion: Embodying Race	p. 105
Blood
Introduction: ""Off Women Com Owre Manhed""	p. 109
Defining, Measuring, and Ranking Racial Blood: The Ungendered Surface	p. 113
Hardly Gender Neutral	p. 123
Gendered Anti-Miscegenation: Laws and Their Interpretation	p. 137
Preserving White Racial Blood: Rape Accusations and Motherhood	p. 147
Conclusion: Miscegenation as Racial Reconciliation?	p. 155
Citizenship
Introduction: ""My Folks Fought for This Country""	p. 159
What is Citizenship?: Gender and Race	p. 165
Engendering Citizenship: Dependency and Sex	p. 171
""No Can Do"" Men and Their Others: Dependency and Inappropriate Gender	p. 181
Mixed Race, Suspect Gender: Both White and ... Whatever	p. 201
Conclusion: Homosexual Citizenship	p. 219
Implications
Introduction: Patterns for a New Bridge	p. 225
Implications for Feminist Theories of Racial Difference and Antisubordination Politics	p. 233
Gender Implications for Theories of Racial Formation	p. 243
Conclusion: Interdependence	p. 251
Notes	p. 255
Index	p. 299
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