In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates
how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied
over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic
boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history,
perceptions of sex difference were translated into complex and
mutable patterns for differentiating women and men. How those
distinctions were drawn and redrawn affected the course of American
history more generally.
Ryan recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that
sharply divided male from female and created modes of exclusion and
inequity. The divide between male and female blurred in the
twentieth century, as women entered the public domain, massed in
the labor force, and revolutionized private life. This
transformation in gender history serves as a backdrop for seven
chronological chapters, each of which presents a different problem
in American history as a quandary of sex. Ryan's bold analysis
raises the possibility that perhaps, if understood in their variety
and mutability, the differences of sex might lose the sting of
inequality.
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