{"product_id":"himherself-peter-g-filene-9780801859212","title":"Him\/Her\/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen first published in 1975, \u003ci\u003eHim\/Her\/Self\u003c\/i\u003e was a pathbreaking book. At a time when scholars were just beginning to explore women's history, Peter Filene expanded his inquiry to include \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. But \u003ci\u003eHim\/Her\/Self\u003c\/i\u003e remains the only book that analyzes the interactions between American men and women comprehensively during the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this third edition, Filene brings his concise and forceful analysis of 20th-century gender history up to the present. He describes the new men's movements of the 1980s and 1990s, ranging from pro-feminist to anti-feminist. He expands his discussion of the gay and lesbian experience, especially in the years since AIDS. He assesses the women's movement, weighing both its achievements and the antifeminist reactions of the past quarter-century. Finally, he enlarges the conceptual scope of the book, focusing not only on social roles of men and women but also on their dynamic sense of identity--of self in historical time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When \u003ci\u003eHim\/Her\/Self\u003c\/i\u003e first appeared, women's history was in its infancy. Gender as a category of analysis was barely a glow on the scholarly horizon, and the idea that manhood was a topic of historical investigation was practically unimagined. In that early dawn of feminist scholarship, Peter Filene's pioneering work was a godsend. It was essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand the workings of gender in history and desperate for models of scholarship that broke the mold of 'traditional' historical writing. Peter Filene's path breaking study did both.\"--Elaine Tyler May, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter G. Filene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801859212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801859212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.03w x 0.84d","brand":"Peter G. Filene","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46880928235775,"sku":"9780801859212","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05999c3a-f424-4a9b-b4ca-f866c1262ef4.jpg?v=1747970145","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/himherself-peter-g-filene-9780801859212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}