Mysteries Of Sex Tracing Women And Men Through American History Mary P Ryan by Mary P. Ryan 9780807830628, 9780807859452, 9780807876688, 0807830623, 0807859451, 0807876682 instant download after payment.

Ryan recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that sharply divided male from female and created modes of exclusion and inequity. The divide between male and female blurred in the twentieth century, as women entered the public domain, massed in the labor force, and revolutionized private life. This transformation in gender history serves as a backdrop for seven chronological chapters, each of which presents a different problem in American history as a quandary of sex. Ryan's bold analysis raises the possibility that perhaps, if understood in their variety and mutability, the differences of sex might lose the sting of inequality.