The specter of sex : gendered foundations of racial formation in the United States / Sally L. Kitch.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitch, Sally
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Sex role > United States > History.
Gender identity > United States > History.
Black people > Race identity.
White people > Race identity.
Physical Description:x, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Women are a huge natural calamity" : the roots of western gender ideology
  • The first races in society : gendered roots of race formation
  • Gendered racial institutions : world slavery and nationhood
  • The American "body shop" : gendered racial formation in the colonies and new republic
  • Enslaved bodies and gendered race
  • Sexual projection and race : science, politics, and lust
  • Defining, measuring, and ranking racial blood : the ungendered surface
  • Hardly gender neutral
  • Gendered anti-miscegenation : laws and their interpretation
  • Preserving white racial blood : rape accusations and motherhood
  • What is citizenship? : gender and race
  • Engendering citizenship : dependency and sex
  • "No can do" men and their others : dependency and inappropriate gender
  • Mixed race, suspect gender : both white and-- whatever
  • Implications for feminist theories of racial difference and antisubordination politics
  • Gender implications for theories of racial formation.