The Gender and American Culture series, guided by feminist perspectives, examines the social construction and influence of gender and sexuality within the full range of American cultures. Books in the series explore the intersection of gender (both female and male) with such markers of difference as race, class, and region. The series presents outstanding scholarship from all areas of American studies–including history, literature, religion, folklore, ethnography, and the visual arts–that investigates in a thoroughly contextualized and lively fashion the ways in which gender works with and against these markers. In so doing, the series seeks to reveal how these complex interactions have shaped American life.
Series Editors
Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Mary Kelley, University of Michigan
Advisory Board
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College
Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University
Robert Reid-Pharr, Harvard University
Noliwe Rooks, Brown University
Series Editors Emerita
Thadious M. Davis
Linda K. Kerber
Annette Kolodny
Nell Irvin Painter

Island Queens and Mission Wives
How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Gender and American Culture
Published: November 2021

Against Sex
Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
Gender and American Culture
Published: June 2021

Southern History across the Color Line, Second Edition
Gender and American Culture
Published: April 2021

American Gold Digger
Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith
Gender and American Culture
Published: November 2020

Proving Pregnancy
Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
Gender and American Culture
Published: September 2022

Feminism for the Americas
The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
Gender and American Culture
Published: August 2020

Veil and Vow
Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture
Gender and American Culture
Published: February 2020

Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Gender and American Culture
Published: February 2020

The Injustices of Rape
How Activists Responded to Sexual Violence, 1950–1980
Gender and American Culture
Published: November 2019

Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Gender and American Culture
Published: February 2019