Specter of Sex

Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Theories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in their focus on contemporary experiences of interlocking oppressions. In The Specter of Sex, Sally L. Kitch explores the "backstory" of intersectionality theory-the historical formation of the racial and gendered hierarchies that continue to structure U.S. culture today. Kitch uses a genealogical approach to explore how a world already divided by gender ideology became one simultaneously obsessed with judgmental ideas about race, starting in Europe and the English colonies in the late seventeenth century. Through an examination of religious, political, and scientific narratives, public policies and testimonies, laws, court cases, and newspaper accounts, The Specter of Sex provides a rare comparative study of the racial formation of five groups-American Indians, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and European whites-and reveals gendered patterns that have served white racial dominance and repeated themselves with variations over a two-hundred-year period.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-06
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor323
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438427539

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The "Purloined Letter" of Gendered RacePart I: Roots As the Twig is Bent1. "Women are a Huge Natural Calamity": The Roots of Western Gender Ideology2. The First Races in Society: Gendered Roots of Race Formation3. Gendered Racial Institutions: World Slavery and NationhoodConclusion: From Gender to RacePart II: Bodies Whose Too, Too Solid Flesh?4. The American "Body Shop": Gendered Racial Formation in the Colonies and New Republic5. Enslaved Bodies and Gendered Race6. Sexual Projection and Race: Science, Politics, and LustConclusion: Embodying RacePart III: Blood "Off Women Com Owre Manhed"7. Defining, Measuring, and Ranking Racial Blood: The Ungendered Surface8. Hardly Gender Neutral9. Gendered Anti-Miscegenation: Laws and Their Interpretation10. Preserving White Racial Blood: Rape Accusations and MotherhoodConclusion: Miscegenation as Racial Reconciliation?Part IV: Citizenship "My Folks Fought for This Country"11. What is Citizenship?: Gender and Race12. Engendering Citizenship: Dependency and Sex13. "No Can Do" Men and Their Others: Dependency and Inappropriate Gender14. Mixed Race, Suspect Gender: Both White and... WhateverConclusion: Homosexual Citizenship: A Gendered Racial OxymoronPart V: Implications Patterns for a New Bridge15. Implications for Feminist Theories of Racial Difference and Antisubordination Politics16. Gender Implications for Theories of Racial FormationConclusion: InterdependenceNotesIndex

"Grounding her analysis on wide-ranging secondary works, [Kitch] presents a concise vision of U.S. gender and racial interactions, particularly valuable for feminist studies courses." — Journal of American History"…[a] compelling and analytically rich book … this is a book that needed to be written, and is useful for any historical appreciation of racial and gendered ideology and inequalities in the US and intersectionality literature more broadly … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This gracefully written synthesis of existing historical scholarship advances a position that both asserts distinction between 'race' and 'gender' as categories and privileges the gendered process of racial formation as key to understanding power and hierarchy in the United States. It is perfect for the classroom and will serve as a guide for theorists who need grounding in history. Compelling and provocative, this book will become a classic." — Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues