Review: Mixed Blood—Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America by Paul R. Spickard

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...

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

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...

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

"The twentieth century way": female impersonation and sexual practice in turn-of-the century America.