The specter of sex
Subtitle: gendered foundations of racial formation in the United States
By: Sally L. Kitch.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781438427539; 9781438427546
Subjects: Sex role -- United States -- History; Gender identity -- United States -- History; Blacks -- Race identity; Whites -- Race identity
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women are a huge natural calamity : the roots of western gender ideology; title: The first races in society : gendered roots of race formation; title: Gendered racial institutions : world slavery and nationhood; title: The American body shop : gendered racial formation in the colonies and new republic; title: Enslaved bodies and gendered race; title: Sexual projection and race : science, politics, and lust; title: Defining, measuring, and ranking racial blood : the ungendered surface; title: Hardly gender neutral; title: Gendered anti-miscegenation : laws and their interpretation; title: Preserving white racial blood : rape accusations and motherhood; title: What is citizenship : gender and race; title: Engendering citizenship : dependency and sex; title: No can do men and their others : dependency and inappropriate gender; title: Mixed race, suspect gender : both white and...whatever; title: Implications for feminist theories of racial difference and antisubordination politics; title: Gender implications for theories of racial formation.