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The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

State University of New York (SUNY) Press<\/a>
\nAugust 2009
\n323 pages
\nHardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2753-9
\nPaperback ISBN13: 978-1-4384-2754-6<\/p>\n

Sally L. Kitch<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies
\nArizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

Theories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in their focus on contemporary experiences of interlocking oppressions. In The Specter of Sex<\/em>, Sally L. Kitch explores the \u201cbackstory\u201d of intersectionality theory\u2014the historical formation of the racial and gendered hierarchies that continue to structure U.S. culture today. Kitch uses a genealogical approach to explore how a world already divided by gender ideology became one simultaneously obsessed with judgmental ideas about race, starting in Europe and the English colonies in the late seventeenth century. Through an examination of religious, political, and scientific narratives, public policies and testimonies, laws, court cases, and newspaper accounts, The Specter of Sex<\/em> provides a rare comparative study of the racial formation of five groups\u2014American Indians, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and European whites\u2014and reveals gendered patterns that have served white racial dominance and repeated themselves with variations over a two-hundred-year period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gracefully written synthesis of existing historical scholarship advances a position that both asserts distinction between \u2018race\u2019 and \u2018gender\u2019 as categories and privileges the gendered process of racial formation as key to understanding power and hierarchy in the United States. It is perfect for the classroom and will serve as a guide for theorists who need grounding in history.<\/p>\n

Table Of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n