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 Gender - Selected Internet Resources

Robert Alford, "Why Do Historians Write About Race, Class, and Gender?," History News Network (February 2004).

Dino Felluga, "Introduction to Theories of Gender and Sex," Introductory Guide to Critical Theory (last updated November 28, 2003), Purdue University.

"Gender and Reproductive Rights Glossary," definitions of basic terms relating to sex and gender, World Health Organization.

Harvey Mansfield, "Is Manliness Optional?," The American Enterprise Online (September 2003).

"Manliness," On Point Radio Show, discussion with Harvey Mansfield, Katha Pollitt, and Jack Beatty, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, WBUR/NPR (8/30/06).

Amy S. Green, excerpt, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Margaret D. Jacobs, "Gender and Colonialism in the American West," Presentation at the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences (New South Wales, July 2005).

Tom Farley, "Canyons, Cowboys, and Cash: Walt Whitman's American West,"  Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies  No. 17-18 (2005).

Sine Anahita, "Retrofitting Frontier Masculinity for Alaska's War on Wolves," Gender and Society, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2006), 332-353.  (pdf)

Clay Motley, "It's a Hell of a Thing to Kill A Man: Western Manhood in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven," Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, Spring 2004, Volume 3, Issue 1.

Andrew Sullivan, "Gay Cowboys Embraced by Redneck Country," Sunday Times Online, February 26, 2006.

 

  Sound File: Willie Nelson, "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other)   

 

Articles selected from UML library databases

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Boag, Peter (2005).  "Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History." Western Historical Quarterly.  2005 36(4): 477-497.

Hazlett, Maril. "'Woman vs. Man vs. Bugs': Gender and Popular Ecology in Early Reactions to Silent Spring."  Environmental History.  Vol. 9, No. 4, October 2004, p701.

Blum, Elizabeth D.  "Power, Danger, and Control: Slave Women's Perceptions of Wilderness in the Nineteenth Century." Women's Studies, Mar/Apr2002, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p247. 

Dempsey, Anna.  "Nurturing Nature and Cinematic Experience: The American Landscape and the Rural Female Community."   Journal of Cultural Geography, Fall/Winter2005, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p115-137.

Faragher, John Mack.  "The Frontier Trail: Rethinking Turner and Reimagining the American West."  American Historical Review, Feb1993, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p106, 12p.

Kushner, Howard I.  "The Persistence of the `Frontier Thesis' in America: Gender, myth, and self-destruction."   Canadian Review of American Studies, 1992 Special Issue 1, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p53.

Kyff, Robert.  "Frederick Jackson Turner & the Vanishing Frontier."   American History Illustrated, Jul/Aug93, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p52.

Morse, Kathryn.  "Putting History at the Core: History and Literature in Environmental Studies." History Teacher, Nov2003, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p67-72.