Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality

Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality
Author: Kathy Lee Peiss
Publisher: Major Problems in American His
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Each volume presents a carefully selected group of readings in a formal that asks students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians and others, and draw their own conclusions.

Intimate Matters

Intimate Matters
Author: John D'Emilio
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780060915506

Traces changing American attitudes towards human sexuality, discusses social issues involving race, gender, class, and sexual preference, and looks at crusaders for sexual change

Major Problems in American Women's History

Major Problems in American Women's History
Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, theMajor Problemsseries introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history.Major Problems in American Women's Historyis the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire chronological span. While attentive to the roles of women and the details of women's lives, the authors are especially concerned with issues of historical interpretation and historiography. The Fourth Edition features greater coverage of the experiences of women in the Midwest and the West, immigrant women, and more voices of women of color. Key pedagogical elements of theMajor Problemsformat have been retained: 14 to 15 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings. New!In Chapter 1, an exclusive essay by Kate Haulman examines the evolution of the field of women's history and the state of women's history today. New!Chapter 2 now focuses on Native American women, while a new Chapter 3 covers witches and their accusers in New England and the Salem witch trials. New!Chapter 6 draws on recent scholarship on the roles of ordinary and elite women in the numerous reform movements of the Early Republic. Revised!Chapter 7 rethinks and refocuses the text's coverage of women's roles in slavery and the Civil War, and more directly addresses the lives of African American women during and after slavery. New!Post-1960 coverage (in Chapters 15–16) has been thoroughly revised to highlight the women's movement, women's health, recent immigration, and economic changes affecting women.

American Sexual Histories

American Sexual Histories
Author: Elizabeth Reis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 144433929X

The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day. Fully updated with ten new chapters, featuring recently published essays by prominent scholars in the field Provides readers with the source documents that historians have analyzed in their articles Allows readers to see how historians craft arguments based on available sources Encourages readers to evaluate historical documents, test the interpretations of historians, and draw their own conclusions

Documenting Intimate Matters

Documenting Intimate Matters
Author: Thomas A. Foster
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226257487

“Thorough, and timely . . . sure to be a popular and valued companion to courses on the history of sexuality and gender in the United States.” —Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the center of fierce political storms, including some of the most crucial changes in civil rights in recent years. Edited by Thomas A. Foster, Documenting Intimate Matters features seventy-two documents that collectively highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Complementing the third edition of Intimate Matters, by John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman—often hailed as the definitive survey of sexual history in America—the multiple narratives presented by these documents reveal the complexity of this subject in US history. The historical moments captured in this volume show that, contrary to popular misconception, the history of sexuality is not a simple story of increased freedoms and sexual liberation, but an ongoing struggle between change and continuity.

Major Problems in American Women's History

Major Problems in American Women's History
Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780669144901

This selection of source documents and analytical essays focuses on those issues in women's history about which there is substantial disagreement and discussion among historians. Topics include the status of white women in colonial America, family lives of enslaved women, the many varieties of feminism in the 19th and 20th centuries, and campaigns for suffrage and social reform. ISBN 0-669-14470-8 (pbk.): $14.00.

The Straight State

The Straight State
Author: Margot Canaday
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691149933

Annotation 'The Straight State' is an expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality across the US. Margot Canaday uses new evidence to show how the state came to systematically penalise homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that dogs sexual minorities to this day.

Major Problems in American History: To 1877

Major Problems in American History: To 1877
Author: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For each chapter, this book contains a wide selection of primary sources as well as two essays by historians.

The Practice of U.S. Women's History

The Practice of U.S. Women's History
Author: S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813541816

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.

Major Problems in American Colonial History

Major Problems in American Colonial History
Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on topics in US history.