Mysteries of sex: tracing women and men through American history

pt. I. Making sex in America : 1500-1900

1. Where have the corn mothers gone? : Americans encounter the Europeans

The coordinates of gender : asymmetry, the relations of the sexes, and hierarchy

The sexual frontier

Warriors and farmers on the gender frontier

2. Who baked that apple pie and when? : how domesticity conquered American culture

The prehistory of feminine domesticity : 1620-1692

Between patriarchy and domesticity : 1750-1840

Homemaking in antebellum and Victorian America

3. How did race get colored? : gender and sexuality in the American South

How slavery became colored African American

The gendering of slave society

Civil war and the reconstruction of race and gender

The sexual politics of Jim Crow

pt. II. Dividing the public realm

4. What is the sex of citizenship? : engendering the American political tradition from the Revolution to the New Deal

When citizenship was male : 1776-1865

The mother as citizen : segregated and secondary

The woman citizen goes to Washington

Second-class citizenship : male and female

pt. III. Women remake gender in the twentieth century

5. How do you get from home to work to equity? : 1900-1960

Who made the woman worker? : an overview

The new woman goes to work : 1890-1940

A private detour through the 1920s

The next generation combines work and family : the 1940s and 1950s

The mystery of the feminine mystique

6. Where does sex divide? : feminism, sexuality, and the structures of gender since 1960

The second wave of feminism : 1960-1970

Sexual revolution and gay rights

Restructuring gender differences : 1980-2000

7. Where in the world is the border between male and female? : immigration and generation in the twentieth century

The generations of gender

New immigrants meet postmodernity : 1965-2000

Joining together to remake male, female, and America.