Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History

Table of contents

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• Mysteries of Sex i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Mysteries of Sex xi
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Making Sex in America 1500–1900 19
• Chapter 1 - Where Have the Corn Mothers Gone? Americans Encounter the Europeans 21
• Chapter 2 - Who Baked That Apple Pie and When? How Domesticity Conquered American Culture 61
• Chapter 3 - How Did Race Get Colored? Gender and Sexuality in the American South 103
• Part II - Dividing the Public Realm 145
• Chapter 4 - What is the Sex of Citizenship? Engendering the American Political Tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal 147
• Part III - Women Remake Gender in the Twentieth Century 199
• Chapter 5 - How Do You Get from Home to Work to Equity? 1900–1960 201
• Chapter 6 - Where Does Sex Divide? Feminism, Sexuality, and the Structures of Gender Since 1960 245
• Chapter 7 - Where in the World is the Border Between Male and Female? Immigration and Generation in the Twentieth Century 291

• Mysteries of Sex i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Mysteries of Sex xi
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Making Sex in America 1500–1900 19
• Chapter 1 - Where Have the Corn Mothers Gone? Americans Encounter the Europeans 21
• Chapter 2 - Who Baked That Apple Pie and When? How Domesticity Conquered American Culture 61
• Chapter 3 - How Did Race Get Colored? Gender and Sexuality in the American South 103
• Part II - Dividing the Public Realm 145
• Chapter 4 - What is the Sex of Citizenship? Engendering the American Political Tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal 147
• Part III - Women Remake Gender in the Twentieth Century 199
• Chapter 5 - How Do You Get from Home to Work to Equity? 1900–1960 201
• Chapter 6 - Where Does Sex Divide? Feminism, Sexuality, and the Structures of Gender Since 1960 245
• Chapter 7 - Where in the World is the Border Between Male and Female? Immigration and Generation in the Twentieth Century 291
• Notes 325
• Bibliography 361
• Acknowledgments 409
• Index 411