Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America

by Peter G. Filene and Professor Peter G. Filene

Book Overview

When first published in 1975, Him/Her/Self was a pathbreaking book. At a time when scholars were just beginning to explore women's history, Peter Filene expanded his inquiry to include both both genders. He was the first to claim the men, too, had a history grounded in gendered experience. Since then much has changed, not only in the lives and attitudes of American men and women, but in the ways that historians think about gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801859212
• ISBN13: 9780801859212
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"