Gender, sexuality, and the Cold War : a global perspective / edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck.

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"Examines how sexuality, femininities, and masculinities impacted both the domestic and foreign policies of states other than the United States during the Cold War"-- "As Marko Dumančić writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, 'Despite the centrality of gender and sexuality...

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Other Authors: Muehlenbeck, Philip E. (Philip Emil) (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
World politics > 1945-1989.
International relations > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Political aspects.
Cold War > Social aspects.
Sex > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Femininity > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Future Studies.
Physical Description:vii, 306 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Hidden in Plain Sight : The Histories of Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War / Marko Dumancic, Western Kentucky University
  • Part I: Sexuality
  • Faceless and Stateless : French Occupation Policy toward Women and Children in Postwar Germany (1945-1949) / Katherine Rossy, Queen Mary University of London
  • Patriarchy and Segregation : Policing Sexuality in US-Icelandic Military Relations / Valur Ingimundarson, University of Iceland
  • Queer(ing) Subversives in Cold War Canada / Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University (Canada)
  • "Nonreligious Activities" : Sex, Anticommunism, and Progressive Christianity in Late Cold War Brazil / Benjamin A. Cowan, George Mason University
  • Manning the Enemy : US Perspectives on International Birthrates during the Cold War / Kathleen A. Tobin, Purdue University Calumet
  • Part II: Femininities
  • Indian Peasant Women's Activism in a Hot Cold War / Elisabeth Armstrong, Smith College
  • The Medicalization of Childhood in Mexico during the Early Cold War, 1945-1960 / Nichole Sanders, Lynchburg College
  • Africa's Kitchen Debate : Ghanaian Domestic Space in the Age of Cold War / Jeffrey S. Ahlman, Smith College
  • Mobilizing Women? : State Feminisms in Communist Czechoslovakia and Socialist Egypt / May Hawas, University of Alexandria (Egypt), and Philip E. Muehlenbeck, George Washington University
  • A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story : Duc Hoan, 1937-2003 / Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross
  • Global Feminism and Cold War Paradigms : Women's International NGOs and the United Nations, 1970-1985 / Karen Garner, SUNY Empire State College
  • Part III: Masculinities
  • "Men of the World" or "Uniformed Boys"? : Hegemonic Masculinity and the British Army in the Era of the Korean War / Grace Huxford, University of Warwick (UK)
  • Yuri Gagarin and Celebrity Masculinity in Soviet Culture / Erica L. Fraser, Carleton University (Canada).