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Philip E Muehlenbeck
Vanderbilt University Press

Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective

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AuthorPhilip E Muehlenbeck
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
PublishedMay 19 2017
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780826521439
Dimensions10 X 6.9 X 0.8 inches
Weight 1.7 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Modern - 20th Century
LanguageEnglish

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As Marko Dumančic writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, despite the centrality of gender and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War. . . . It is not an exaggeration to say that few were left unaffected by Cold War gender politics; even those who were in charge of producing, disseminating, and enforcing cultural norms were called on to live by the gender and sexuality models into which they breathed life. This underscores the importance of this volume, as here scholars tackle issues ranging from depictions of masculinity during the all-consuming space race, to the vibrant activism of Indian peasant women during this period, to the policing of sexuality inside the militaries of the world.

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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