Vanderbilt University Press
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective
Key Metrics
- Philip E Muehlenbeck
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780826521422
- 10.1 X 7.1 X 1.1 inches
- 2.11 pounds
- History > Modern - 20th Century
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose combined research spans fifteen countries across five continents, claiming a place as the first volume to examine how issues of gender and sexuality impacted both the domestic and foreign policies of states, far beyond the borders of the United States, during the tumult of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Histories of Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War
Marko Dumančic
Part I: Sexuality
Faceless and Stateless: French Occupation Policy toward Women and Children in Postwar Germany (1945-1949)
Katherine Rossy
Patriarchy and Segregation: Policing Sexuality in US-Icelandic Military Relations
Valur Ingimundarson
Queering Subversives in Cold War Canada
Patrizia Gentile
Nonreligious Activities Sex, Anticommunism, and Progressive Christianity in Late Cold War Brazil
Benjamin A. Cowan
Manning the Enemy: US Perspectives on International Birthrates during the Cold War
Kathleen A. Tobin
Part II: Femininities
Indian Peasant Women's Activism in a Hot Cold War
Elisabeth Armstrong
The Medicalization of Childhood in Mexico during the Early Cold War, 1945-1960
Nichole Sanders
Africa's Kitchen Debate: Ghanaian Domestic Space in the Age of the Cold War
Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Mobilizing Women? State Feminisms in Communist Czechoslovakia and Socialist Egypt
May Hawas and Philip E. Muehlenbeck
A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story: Duc Hoan, 1937-2003
Karen Turner
Global Feminism and Cold War Paradigms: Women's International NGOs and the United Nations, 1970-1985
Karen Garner
Part III: Masculinities
Men of the World or Uniformed Boys? Hegemonic Masculinity and the British Army in the Era of the Korean War
Grace Huxford
Yuri Gagarin and Celebrity Masculinity in Soviet Culture
Erica L. Fraser
Author Bio
Philip E. Muehlenbeck is a visiting part-time faculty in Department of History Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
He is the author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders and editor of Religion and the Cold War and Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War.
Education
2001-2007 George Washington University
Doctor of Philosophy, History (received May 2007)
• Dissertation title: Betting on the Dark Horses: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Hope Harrison (chair), Dr. James Hershberg, and Dr. Nemata Blyden.
Master of Arts, History (received August 2003)
1997-2000 Michigan State University
Bachelor of Arts
• Major: History
• Minors: Political Science and Psychology
Source: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and C-Span.org
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