Barbara Melosh (ed.)

Gender and American History Since 1890

Herausgeber: Melosh, Barbara

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and accompanied by headnotes and study questions, the essays offer a clear and engaging introduction for the non-specialist. The introduction describes the emergence of gender as a subject of historical investigation and in ten essays, historians explore the meanings and significance of gender in American history since 1890. The volume shows how the interpretation of gender expands and revises our understanding of significant issues in twentieth-century history, such as work, labour protest, sexuality, consumption and social welfare. It offers new perspectives on visual representations and explores the politics of historical subjects and the politics of our own historical revisions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780415076760
• ISBN-10: 0415076765
• Artikelnr.: 21063542

Autorenporträt

Barbara Melosh

Inhaltsangabe

Part One Sexuality and Gender: Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression
Christina Simmons; Sexual Geography and Gender Economy - The Furnished Room Districts of Chicago
1890-1930
Joanne Meyerowitz; Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I
Era George Chauncey Jr; The Meanings of Lesbianism in Post-War America
Donna Penn. Part Two Work and Consumption in Visual Representations: Art
the New Woman
and Consumer Culture - Kenneth Hayes Miller and Reginald Marsh on 14th Street
1920-1940
Ellen Wiley Todd; Manly Work - Public Art and Masculinity in Depression America
Barbara Melosh; Gendered Labour - Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter and the Discourses of Wartime Femininity
Melissa Dabakis. Part III Gender as Political Language Civilization
the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness
and Ida B. Wells's Anti-Lynching Campaign (1892-1894): Disorderly Women - Gender and Labour Militancy in the Appalchian South
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall; Family Violence
Feminism
and Social Control
Lynda Gordon.