Gender and the Politics of History
10 best books like Gender and the Politics of History (Joan Wallach Scott): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
| Author | Alice Echols |
| ISBN | 0816617872 |
It's sadly common for present-day feminists to paint second-wave feminism as a monolithic movement, and to reduce second-wave feminism, in all its complexity, to a series of failures and examples of shortsightedness (though, to be fair, Echols points out that radical feminists of the second wave...
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0807845965 |
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of...
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
| Author | Nancy MacLean |
| ISBN | 0195098366 |
On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
| Author | Peter Novick |
| ISBN | 0521357454 |
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late 19th century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520229126 |
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes—governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil—and shows that...
| Author | Winifred Breines |
| ISBN | 0195179048 |
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | Anne McClintock |
| ISBN | 0415908906 |
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between...
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0520231112 |
Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows...
| Author | Thomas W. Laqueur |
| ISBN | 0674543556 |
This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur's story--the...
| Author | Mary L. Dudziak |
| ISBN | 0691095132 |
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States'...
| Author | Linda K. Kerber |
| ISBN | 0807846325 |
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
| Author | Afsaneh Najmabadi |
| ISBN | 0520242637 |
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi...
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0300072988 |
This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historian’s development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“Nancy Cott’s Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer...
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
| Author | Christine Stansell |
| ISBN | 0252014812 |
How women emerged as a distinctive class in the burgeoning society of New York City in the postCivil War era is explored from an original viewpoint in this interesting study. Female class relations, ``ladies'' and working women, were symbiotic. The laborers had their sexual and social demeanor regulated...
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
| Author | Alice Domurat Dreger |
| ISBN | 0674001893 |
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men construed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies - when combined with social exigencies - forced...
Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
| Author | Kristin L. Hoganson |
| ISBN | 0300085540 |
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders`...
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
| Author | Ruth Schwartz Cowan |
| ISBN | 0465047327 |
In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern conveniences—washing...
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
| Author | Jay Murray Winter |
| ISBN | 0521639883 |
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective...
The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
| Author | Roy Rosenzweig |
| ISBN | 0231111495 |
Some people make photo albums, collect antiques, or visit historic battlefields. Others keep diaries, plan annual family gatherings, or stitch together patchwork quilts in a tradition learned from grandparents. Each of us has ways of communing with the past, and our reasons for doing so are as varied...
