... and networks among teenagers in romance and peer groups. They have examined how peer cultures and networks and the status hierarchies within them impact adolescent sexuality. Finally, gender scholars have examined how teenage girls' and boys' experiences of sexuality are profoundly shaped by gender...

..., and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents' divergent attitudes, it reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. The book provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption...

..., and retrofitting used cars. This offered opportunities for cross-generational bonding (when fathers and sons shared mechanical interests), but also for enabling youth to become vanguards of mechanical progress, leaving dads and granddads behind. The car reinforced the gender divide by putting young males...

... mobility. Perhaps assuming that their readers had assimilated to city life, newspapers stopped giving authoritative instructions on urban living in the 1920s. Instead, they began to delve more deeply into questions of marriage, family, and gender roles. Beginning in the 1890s, Philadelphia’s...

...This chapter considers how Davy’s appeal to women in his audiences at the Royal Institution affected his public persona. At a time of heightened anxieties about shifting gender roles, women’s scientific education was a polarizing political issue. Davy’s recruitment of women to his audiences...

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...This chapter examines how gender historians and historians of sexuality each discuss World War I’s disruptive effects in bringing together large numbers of like-minded women in war work and the military, but reach separate conclusions about the nature and significance of homosociality as a source...

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... different effects on men and women, and pension reform can have important gender effects. Moreover, social security systems often include rules that explicitly differentiate between men and women. This chapter reviews these labor market and demographic differences and the issues they raise for pension...

....” It argues that many non-elites were fully engaged in producing ideas about politics, manners, gender relations, and a host of other topics. Drawing on two scholarly literatures, both of which have drawn on Jürgen Habermas's conceptions of an “authentic public sphere” in which individuals discussed...

... classes, and the stifling effects of the Christian church on American society and culture. However, she earned the ire of many newspaper editors, who relentlessly attacked her with ad hominem insults. The intense focus on Wright's gender came to stand in for, and ultimately to obscure, the debate over...

...Authored by Nikki Sullivan, this chapter examines John Money’s claim that the brain is the site of the unification of “biological and social determinism,” where schemas of gender identification and complementation become locked in, and from whence they function as “templates in the governance...

... sexist. I argue, however, that this paradigmatic shift is driven, in part, by a professional desire to build a more credible and legitimate profession. In the meantime, I demonstrate that this move towards the brain has failed to de-gender migraine and instead has created a new, highly gendered “kind...

... a particular kind of woman—remain embedded in the patchwork of images, narratives, and rhetoric produced by the pharmaceutical industry. Allergan chronic migraine Excedrin Migraine gendered accounts Imitrex sumatriptan marketing of pharmaceuticals migraine race and ethnicity socioeconomic status women...

... by gendered images, metaphors and stereotypes. This social history of headache disorders not only provides an important vantage point for understanding how cultural beliefs about the relationship between gender, class and pain are inscribed and reinscribed into bodies, it also demonstrates how these factors...

... of illness in order to get as close as possible to a historical ethnography of people’s affective lives at the time. In doing so, it sheds light on the gender norms and intense family bonds that underpinned the nostalgia diagnosis. At a time when psychiatry was still in its infancy, and the notion...

.... These cases all received national media coverage and they highlighted controversies of gender and/or racial discrimination. They also became vehicles for crystallizing, debating, and attempting to resolve contemporary social problems. Cato Gavin “Crown Heights” case Diallo Amadou case of Dinkins David...

... a moral dilemma of obvious concern to adolescent women of aristocratic background. Part of the effectiveness of the plays lies in Maintenon's skillful use of her characters as projections of her adolescent audience's typical beliefs, questions, and anxieties about the future. Attentive to the gender...

... in which the boundary between humans and nonhumans is drawn on the terrain of desire. What makes this talk about bear-human sex so compelling is the fact that women come to know and relate to these animals differently than men on account of the gendered division of labor involved in creating and sustaining...

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