Gender and Sociopolitical Change in Twentieth-Century Latin America

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century, Old Disparities"

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped between 3 and 4 percentage points, dependi...

Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century Old Disparities"

Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to “New Century, Old Disparities” This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender ...

Mustaches and masculine codes in early twentieth-century America.

The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of twentieth-century masculinity by considering the social function of facial hair. The management of facial hair has always been a medium of gendered body language, and as such has elicited a nearly continuous private and public conversation about manliness. Careful attention to this conversation, and to trends in facial hairstyles, il...

Drawing blood: technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America

Is the play the thing? The answer, it seems, would depend upon the nature of the conscience one sought to catch-and, relatedly, on the nature of the play itself. Wailoo's provocatively entitled Drawing blood presents the history of anaemias in twentieth-century America; one can argue, much in the style of a traditional five-act play. Though the author himself never uses the term, an overview of...