Linda Kerber "Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Women's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History." http://www.jstor.org/stable/1889653
Joan Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis." http://www.jstor.org/stable/1864376
Please also read the introduction to the American Historical Review Forum, "Revisiting Gender: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis"
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1344
and any ONE of the following:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1346
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1357
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1375
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1390
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1404
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1422
and just for fun: http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/ahr-forum-on-joan-scotts-gender.html
Required Texts:
Carol Pateman, The Sexual Contract. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Sharon Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2006.
Ann Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Jennifer Spear, Race, Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of Imperialism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegination Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Mary Ryan, Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Boston, Beacon Press, 2005.
Recommended Text:
Mary Beth Norton, Ruth Alexander and Thomas Paterson, Major Problems in American Women’s History. Wadsworth, 2006.
For Further Reading:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Barr, Julianna. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917.
Berlant, Lauren. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Bliss, Katherine Elaine. Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City.
Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Brown, Kathleen. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America.
Burton, Antoinette and Tony Balantyne, eds. Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History.
______Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire.Canaday, Margot. The Straight State:Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America.
Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture and Labor Politics and the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Findlay, Eileen. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920.
Grewal, Inderpal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman, eds. Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973.
Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.
Ibson, John. Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography.
Jacobs, Margaret. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism,and the Removalof Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
______Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934.
Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America: A Cultural History.
May, Elaine Tyler. America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.
Mitchell, Pablo. Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920.
Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.
Roedigger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
Twinam, Ann. Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America.
Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Boston, Beacon Press, 2005.
Recommended Text:
Mary Beth Norton, Ruth Alexander and Thomas Paterson, Major Problems in American Women’s History. Wadsworth, 2006.
For Further Reading:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Barr, Julianna. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917.
Berlant, Lauren. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Bliss, Katherine Elaine. Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City.
Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Brown, Kathleen. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America.
Burton, Antoinette and Tony Balantyne, eds. Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History.
______Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire.Canaday, Margot. The Straight State:Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America.
Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture and Labor Politics and the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Findlay, Eileen. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920.
Grewal, Inderpal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman, eds. Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973.
Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.
Ibson, John. Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography.
Jacobs, Margaret. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism,and the Removalof Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
______Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934.
Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America: A Cultural History.
May, Elaine Tyler. America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.
Mitchell, Pablo. Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920.
Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery.
Roedigger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
Twinam, Ann. Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America.
