Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese by P. Zhu

I Will Wear No Chain!: A Social History of African American Males

This quantity strains the social heritage of African American males from the times of slavery to the current, targeting their achievements, their altering photo, and their position in American society. the writer areas the modern factor of Black men's disproportionate involvement with legal justice inside its social and old context, whereas reading the main major pursuits aiming to enhance the prestige of Blacks in our society.

Retiring Men: Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960

As lifestyles spans elevated dramatically within the usa after 1900, and employers more and more demanded the rate and stamina of teen within the office, males struggled to maintain identities as staff, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the center beliefs of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer lifestyles threatened manhood as males faced age discrimination at paintings, necessary retirement, and glued earning as recipients of Social defense and place of work pensions.

Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants

During this bright new background, Phil Tiemeyer info the heritage of guys operating as flight attendants. starting with the founding of the career within the overdue Twenties and carrying on with into the post-September eleven period, airplane Queer examines the historical past of fellows who joined places of work often pointed out as female-oriented.

Gender and the Second World War: The Lessons of War (Gender and History)

Exhibiting how gender background contributes to current understandings of the second one global struggle, this booklet bargains element and context at the nationwide and transnational reports of guys and ladies in the course of the battle. Following a normal creation, the essays shed new gentle at the box and illustrate equipment of operating with a variety of fundamental assets.