Posted by
Ellen on
2 September 2010, 9:47 am
We welcome a guest post today from Susan Nance, author of How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1835. Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the “East,” such as the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing [...] Read more »
Posted by
Alyssa on
24 June 2010, 1:10 pm
When former President Bill Clinton was elected nearly 18 years ago, there was heated debate about gays serving in the United States military. Originally, a proposed federal law was to ban all gays from the armed services; Clinton rallied support for a compromise and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was born in 1993. Seven [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, Civil Rights, Cultural Studies, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Military History, Military Studies, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged Allan Berube, don't ask don't tell, gay and lesbian veterans, gay rights movement, Gay/Lesbian studies, gays in the military, steve estes, u.s. military
Posted by
Ellen on
22 June 2010, 1:38 pm
Until very recently, the term “feminist” was used by those on the right only as a negative descriptor of someone who would invariably be a political foe. Devoted feminists have struggled to set the word free from the negative connotations and reclaim the label as a source of pride, with mixed results, especially among younger [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Current Events, Gender Studies, Politics, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged carly fiorina, conservative feminists, feminism, lisa levenstein, nikki haley, Republican feminists, Republican Women, Sarah Palin, social conservatives, women in high office, women politicians, women's movement
Posted by
Alyssa on
17 June 2010, 11:00 am
This weekend is Father’s Day (hope you didn’t forget!) and in honor of pops and grandpas everywhere, we have an interview with Judith Walzer Leavitt, author of Make Room for Daddy. Drawing from letters, journals and interviews with fathers, Leavitt investigates how the role of the father changed from the 1940s to the 1980s. Once [...] Read more »
Filed under Gender Studies, Health / Medicine, Interviews, TSoT, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged childbirth, father's day, fathers, gender history, gender norms, Judith Leavitt, make room for daddy, maternity, mothers
Posted by
Ellen on
5 May 2010, 1:10 pm
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans is more than a book we’ve just published — it’s a multimedia project based on interviews with dozens of female military veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book juxtaposes 48 photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Gender Studies, Military History, Women's Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, Iraq, Laura Browder, sascha flaeging, women combat veterans, women in the military
Posted by
matt on
31 March 2010, 8:47 am
Since March is coming to an end, and April is going to be a busy month here on the Press Blog, this is going to be the last post in our series of books for National Women’s History Month. So far, we’ve covered some important books on topics like women at war, the role of [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, History, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged American Revolution, Building a Housewife's Paradise, capitalism, childbirth, consumption, fertility, food, grocery store, National Women's History Month, Revolutionary Conception, supermarket, Susan Klepp, Tracey Deutsch, women
Posted by
matt on
25 March 2010, 8:11 am
As a continuation of our series of posts on National Women’s History Month, today’s post will be about an event from 99 years ago today–the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. While horrific–146 workers, mostly poor Italian, German, and Jewish women between the ages of eight and twenty perished–the fire at Triangle Shirtwaist [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Gender Studies, History, Labor Studies, Women's Studies.
Tagged 1911, Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire, fire, ILGWU, immigrants, International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, Italian, Jennifer Guglielmo, labor history, labor strike, Living the Revolution, National Women's History Month, New York City, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Uprise of the Thirty Thousand, Uprise of the Twenty Thousand
Posted by
matt on
18 March 2010, 11:09 am
Two weeks ago, I blogged here about National Women’s History Month, making the first in a series of posts about new and recent books available from UNC Press focusing on the lives of women. That entry featured books that looked at the lives of American women in the Civil War and women returning from tours [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, History, Literature, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged barbara sicherman, books, Edith Hamilton, Ida B. Wells, literacy, Megan Sweeney, National Women's History Month, prison, Reading is my Window, Well-Read Lives
Posted by
matt on
5 March 2010, 3:43 pm
If you are familiar with the UNC Press Blog, you probably know that we know a thing or two about celebrating. If it has a national celebration day, week, or month, we probably have it marked on our calendars well in advance. Why else would we have a 1000-word post on the merits of National [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Civil War, Current Events, Gender Studies, History, Military History, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, Army at Home, civil war, Giesberg, Iraq, Laura Browder, March, National Women's History Month, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home
Posted by
Rose on
8 September 2009, 3:48 pm
This Labor Day, I spent some time thinking not only about the dismal state of the unemployed, the underemployed (whether by furlough, reduced hours, part-time work that has replaced full-time, or a job below the worker’s experience and capabilities) and the discouraged worker (who has given up even looking for work), to contemplate another kind [...] Read more »
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admin on
31 July 2009, 2:58 pm
With a title alluding to the complicated past of gender and sex, Mary P. Ryan’s Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History gives us a thoughtful and thorough examination of the long debated battle over the differences between men and women. The question of how the dividing line between male and female [...] Read more »
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admin on
17 June 2009, 8:28 am
Judith Walzer Leavitt, who guest blogged for us yesterday, will be appearing on WUNC’s The State of Things today with Frank Stasio, discussing the evolving role of fathers in the childbirth process. The show starts at noon (eastern) and Judy’s segment will begin around 12:40. You can listen to the show online or download a [...] Read more »
Posted by
admin on
16 June 2009, 10:01 am
Today’s guest post is from Judith Walzer Leavitt, author of the recently released Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. In her book, Leavitt follows the history of how expectant fathers, over the course of the twentieth century, gradually shifted from twiddling their thumbs in the waiting room to coaching [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine.
Tagged baby delivery, birthing room, childbirth, delivery room, donald sutherland, father's day, fatherhood, fernand lamaze, grantly dick-read, judith walzer leavitt, labor room, lamaze technique, make room for daddy, new fathers, waiting room
Posted by
admin on
15 May 2009, 2:07 pm
. . . but I won’t do that. So, maybe (?) you’ve never greeted your spouse at the door wearing nothing but Saran Wrap. But what would you do if you thought it would help your relationship? What would you expect your partner to do to keep you around? Kristin Celello, author of Making Marriage [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Interviews, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged deborah harper, kristin celello, making marriage work, psychjourney, saran wrap
Posted by
admin on
21 April 2009, 1:54 pm
New York, NY – Today! Tuesday 4/21 at 6 pm – Ann Marie Stock, author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (hot off the press!), will be speaking at the Havana Film Festival at the King Juan Carlos Center. Raleigh, NC – Wed., 4/22 at 11 am – Rob Christensen, [...]
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Birds & Birding, Cooking / Food, Cuba, Events, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Local Indy Booksellers, Media Studies, Military Studies, Nature, North Carolina, Politics, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged ann marie stock, armchair birder, bbq, cuban filmmakers, dale volberg reed, E. Patrick Johnson, gerda lerner, giovannis room, havana film festival new york, holy smoke, john shelton reed, john yow, joshua howard, malaprops bookstore, monticello, temple beth or raleigh nc, thomas jefferson
