
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 S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Mary Kelley, University of Michigan
Advisory Board
Cathleen Cahill, Penn State University
Rosalyn LaPier, University of Illinois
Jen Manion, Amherst College
Tamika Nunley, Cornell University
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College
Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University
Robert Reid-Pharr, Harvard University
Noliwe Rooks, Brown University
Nick Syrett, University of Kansas
Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
Series Editors Emerita
Thadious M. Davis
Linda K. Kerber
Annette Kolodny
Nell Irvin Painter
UNC Press Sponsoring Editor
Andreina Fernandez, Editor
Andreina.Fernandez@uncpress.org

Beyond Norma Rae
How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
Gender and American Culture
Published: November 2023

The Famous Lady Lovers
Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall
Gender and American Culture
Published: September 2023

White Gloves, Black Nation
Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti
Gender and American Culture
Published: April 2023

Fit Citizens
A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America
By Ava Purkiss
Gender and American Culture
Published: April 2023

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

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

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