Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around by Paola Bacchetta,Margaret Power

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

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

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

As existence spans accelerated dramatically within the usa after 1900, and employers more and more demanded the rate and stamina of minor within the place of work, males struggled to maintain identities as employees, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the middle beliefs of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer existence threatened manhood as males faced age discrimination at paintings, vital retirement, and stuck earning as recipients of Social safeguard and place of work pensions.

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

During this vivid new heritage, Phil Tiemeyer information the background of fellows operating as flight attendants. starting with the founding of the occupation within the overdue Nineteen Twenties and carrying on with into the post-September eleven period, airplane Queer examines the historical past of guys who joined places of work usually 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 conflict, this publication bargains element and context at the nationwide and transnational reports of guys and girls in the course of the conflict. Following a normal creation, the essays shed new mild at the box and illustrate equipment of operating with a variety of fundamental assets.