Gender Relations in the American Experience – serie
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Iron Men, Wooden Women
Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920
Av Margaret S. Creighton, Lisa Norling
Häftad, 1996
477 kr
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From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the …
Engendering Business
Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930
Häftad, 1998
420 kr
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"Drawing on a range of primary sources including the archives of major companies, personal papers, trade magazines, photographs, and recorded anecdotes of turn-of-century life and using the extensive secondary literature on women, sex roles, women's work, manhood, business history and material …
Domesticating Drink
Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
Häftad, 2002
393 kr
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The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the …
Marriage in the Early Republic
Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
Av Anya Jabour
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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William Wirt practiced law in Virginia and Maryland in the early national period and served as attorney general under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Elizabeth Wirt managed the household and cared for the Wirts' large family during her husband's frequent work-related absences. For more than …
Sexual Revolution in Early America
Häftad, 2004
386 kr
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In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, …
Looking Good
College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930
Häftad, 2005
426 kr
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward …
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex
America's First Women in Space Program
Häftad, 2006
375 kr
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On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in the "space race," this event did not spur NASA to catch up by flying an American woman. Though there were suitable candidates-two years earlier, thirteen female …
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars
Men in the Marketplace
Inbunden, 2008
732 kr
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The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers …
Brutes in Suits
Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920
Häftad, 2012
495 kr
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Are men truly predisposed to violence and aggression? Is it the biological fate of males to struggle for domination over women and vie against one another endlessly? These and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In Brutes in Suits, …
Looking Good
College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930
Inbunden, 2003
484 kr
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward …
Brutes in Suits
Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920
Inbunden, 2007
652 kr
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Are men truly predisposed to violence and aggression? Is it the biological fate of males to struggle for domination over women and vie against one another endlessly? These and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In Brutes in Suits, …
Jolly Fellows
Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2009
604 kr
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"Jolly fellows," a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued …
