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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451681603321

Autore

Ryan Mary P

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

1-4696-0605-4

0-8078-7668-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (445 p.)

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Sex role - United States - History

Women - United States - History

Men - United States - History

Feminism - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States History

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.