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..., yet military women’s femininity was racialized, as idealized feminine combatants were typically represented as white, light-skinned women despite a diverse racial composition. Copyright © 2020 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2020 Cuba gender race Angola war...

... Pacific as conspicuously incidental in mainstream atomic culture enables new insights on the visual interplay between white femininity and primitive sexuality—an interplay that, the author argues, was integral to establishing domestic virtue and modern living as atomic age touchstones of “peace...

...) Jamaican femininity in contrast to English ladyhood. For upper-class white Jamaicans, the image, behavior, and deportment of the idealized femme were imagined as the yardstick of respectable identity for the community. As Lucille Parks remarked, “It is the women who make a society, and who give...

... challenges crested, however, anger was written out of the middle-class (white) feminine ideal. Analyzing the "Victorian synthesis" on anger, Peter and Carol Stearns argue that white men could-indeed, were expected-to sometimes feel lust or anger; control of these feelings proved...

... challenges crested, however, anger was written out of the middle-class (white) feminine ideal. Analyzing the "Victorian synthesis" on anger, Peter and Carol Stearns argue that white men could-indeed, were expected-to sometimes feel lust or anger; control of these feelings proved...

... of the white nation. The U.S. nation is constructed through the trope of white femininity. White and especially masculinist anxieties are effectively mobilized through the gendered and (de)racialized construction of the nation as a white mother, the threat of her...

... on Davis, Seidman shows how the African American freedom struggle and the Cuban Revolution occasionally reinforced one another on a transnational stage. Lorraine Bayard de Volo’s article, “Tactical Negrificación and White Femininity: Race, Gender, and Internationalism in Cuba’s Angolan Mission...

... perceptions about white femininity and beauty. In a pamphlet distributed on Curaçao and reprinted in Kontakto Antiano in 1970, activists rallied black women to “think black, be black, feel proud.” “Wear a shorter miniskirt,” the article continued; “Show your liberated black thighs, let go of your shame...

... polarities were a response to dramatic changes in “men’s work, the rise of the white collar sector, the reduction of the birth rate, women’s entry into higher education and the professions”—changes that seemed to threaten previous notions of masculinity and femininity. Intending to “shatter...

... counterinsurgents’ behavior is informed by racially coded politics of feminine respectability where white women are inherently feminine and where black women must prove it. Here whiteness informs the logic of female counterinsurgency, even as the counterinsurgents themselves are often women of color...

...Jean Calterone Williams Judith Hennessee, Betty Friedan: Her Life . New York: Random House,1999. Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism . Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. 2001...

.../01636545-3451748 © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 74   75 of Stone, Morgan, and Johnson reveal contested ideas about black femininity and physicality in the 1950s while also expanding current understandings...

... and unmanaged female sexual appetite, perhaps most notably in the exhibition of Saartjie Baartman, billed by her exhibitors as “the Hottentot Venus.”2 We juxtapose freak shows with the abundant display of idealized and impossi- ble white femininity as represented in the composite of contained...

... and inter- national political activity and social behavior.2 But, as Kushner’s play suggests, this postwar trope of ”Americanism” achieved success ultimately through a process that critics Peter Stallybrass and Allon White have called ”displaced abje~tionThat is, to secure abstract concepts...

... modernity. The romanticized southern ideal of untouched and idle white femininity had a powerful influence on the national mind through the newly developed mass market of standardized foodstuffs. The figure of the southern “mammy,” from Aunt Jemima to Gone with the Wind, was one of the central...

... Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle-class. Explorations in Feminism and History. New York: Routledge, 1992. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Robert A. Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. $39.95 (cloth). Why write a history...

... . Lâle . 1953 . “Cumhurbaṣkanımız'dan Tarsusa selam.” June 5 . ———. 1953 . “Gemide kabul ve ziyaret saatleri.” June 3 . ———. 1954 . “Okuyucularımız arasında bir anket.” July 28 . Lewis Reina . 1996 . Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity, and Representation . London...

..., White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Diference. London and New York: Verso, 1995. $18.95. Erica Rand, Barbie’s Queer Accessories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. $45.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Simon Reynolds and Joy Press, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion...

...Anne Higonnet Copyright © April 1987 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1987 Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe Anne Higonnet Women have many traditions of self...

... Pattison is described by contemporaries as acting in ways that marked her as different from and not bound by Oxford, especially through extravagant performances of femininity, aristocracy, THE RESOURCES OF STYLE/125 and Frenchness. Style can be a way...