Readings in Gender and Culture in America Book

	Preface	xi
Chapter 1	Introduction to Issues of Gender and Culture in America	1
	Woman, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview	4
	Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender	26
Chapter 2	Cultural History, 1600-1900	48
	The Serpent Beguiled Me	51
	Puberty to Menopause: The Cycle of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century America	64
	Religion [and the Bonds of Womanhood]	77
	The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legend of the Cowboy	97
Chapter 3	The Twentieth Century	109
	Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood	112
	Fat Talk: Body Image among Adolescent Girls	134
	In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality	150
Chapter 4	Alternative Sexual Preferences and Gender Identities	163
	Out-Takes	165
	Capitalism and Gay Identity	174
	Transgender Warriors	186
	Difference, Desire, and the Self: Three Stories	200
Chapter 5	Gender in the Culture of Native Americans and African Americans	215
	We'wha, the Celebrated Lhamana	218
	In My Family, the Women Ran Everything	241
	Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America	249
	"Not That Sort of Women": Race, Gender, and Sexual Violence during the Memphis Riot of 1866	269
Chapter 6	Gender in the Culture of Latinas/Latinos and Asian Americans	295
	La Conciencia de una Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness	297
	La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty--San Juan and New York	311
	A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida	320
	No Name Woman	322
	Then Came the War	332
	Visiting the Homeland	340
Chapter 7	The College Experience	346
	How Cultural Systems Become Desire: A Case Study of American Romance	348
	The University of Michigan Class of 1967: The Women's Life Paths Study	371
	Gaining a Foothold: Women's Transitions through Work and College	392
Chapter 8	Conclusion	405
	Commonalities and Differences	406
	Men, Work, and Identity	428