Mysteries of sex : tracing women and men through American history / Mary P. Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Mary P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--United States--History.

Sex role.

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Men--United States--History.

Men.

Feminism--United States--History.

Feminism.

United States--History.

United States.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a synthesis of American history, this work demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of many years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. It recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that sharply separated male from female and created modes of exclusion and inequity.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; PART I. MAKING SEX IN AMERICA: 1500–1900; Chapter 1. Where Have the Corn Mothers Gone?: Americans Encounter the Europeans; Chapter 2. Who Baked That Apple Pie and When?: How Domesticity Conquered American Culture; Chapter 3. How Did Race Get Colored?: Gender and Sexuality in the American South; PART II. DIVIDING THE PUBLIC REALM; Chapter 4. What Is the Sex of Citizenship?: Engendering the American Political Tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal; PART III. WOMEN REMAKE GENDER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 5. How Do You Get from Home to Work to Equity?: 1900–1960Chapter 6. Where Does Sex Divide?: Feminism, Sexuality, and the Structures of Gender since 1960; Chapter 7. Where in the World Is the Border between Male and Female?: Immigration and Generation in the Twentieth Century; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-408) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908698-8-3

1-4696-0605-4

0-8078-7668-2

OCLC:

476237427