Contents

• 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