No57

NO. 69 SPRING 2006

WORKING-CLASS SUBJECTIVITIES AND SEXUALITIES

Issue Editors: Dorothy Sue Cobble and Victoria Hattam

Introduction (See Abstract)

Dorothy Sue Cobble and Victoria Hattam

WORKING-CLASS MASCULINITIES

"Boys Will Be Boys": Working-Class Masculinities in the Age of Mass Production (See Abstract)

Craig Heron

Race and the Construction of Working Class Masculinity in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1930 (See Abstract)

Carolyn Brown

"Rough Mens" in "the Toughest Places I Ever Seen": The Construction and Ramifications of Black Masculine Identity in the Mississippi Delta’s Levee Camps, 1900-1935 (See Abstract)

Michael McCoyer

From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US (See Abstract)

Deborah Cohen

WORKING-CLASS WOMEN'S BODIES

Bodies, Sexuality, and the "Modernization" of the British Working Classes, 1920s-1960s (See Abstract)

Stephen Brooke

Desirable Dress: Rosies, Sky Girls, and the Politics of Appearance (See Abstract)

Eileen Boris

REFLECTIONS ON CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Masculinity, The Embodied Male Worker, and the Historian’s Gaze (See Abstract)

Ava Baron

"They don't even look like women workers," Some Thoughts on Femininity and Class in Twentieth-Century Latin America (See Abstract)

Barbara Weinstein

Spaces of Encounter: The Cultural Labor of Class Difference (See Abstract)

Ardis Cameron

CLASSICS REVISITED

Vera Shlakman, Economic History of a Factory Town, A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts (1935) (See Abstract)

Alice Kessler-Harris

BOOK REVIEWS

Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, edited by Herrick Chapman and Laura Frader

Reviewed by Todd Shepard

The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France, by Helen Harden Chenut

Reviewed by Clifford Rosenberg

Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929, by James W. Heinzen

Reviewed by Jane Burbank

The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914, by Haia Shpayer-Makov

Reviewed by William Thomas Allison

For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, edited by David Goodway

Reviewed by Dana Williams

The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and other Stories: Crafts and guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914, by John T. Chalcraft

Reviewed by Behrooz Moazami

Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002, edited by Peter Winn

Reviewed by Michael Monteon

Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa

Reviewed by Dianne Newell

The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age, by Steven Leiken

Reviewed by Craig Phelan

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism, by Ileen A. DeVault

Reviewed by Colleen Woods

Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960, by Judith E. Smith

Reviewed by Robert Bruno

The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism: Politics, Labor and Culture, edited by Philip V. Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer

Reviewed by William Mello

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