ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|110 pages
Sexuality and Gender
chapter 3|29 pages
Sexual Geography and Gender Economy
chapter 4|34 pages
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion?
part 2|80 pages
Work and Consumption in Visual Representations
chapter 6|28 pages
Art, the “New Woman,” and Consumer Culture
chapter 8|23 pages
Gendered Labor
part 3|104 pages
Gender as Political Language