Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Gods of the Upper Air

How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

By
Charles King
Charles King
2019 • 479 pages

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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95 books

Biography

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
A Two-Spirit Journey
Papillon
Charity and Sylvia
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
Madame Curie
Angela Davis: An Autobiography

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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112 books

Gender Studies

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Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Grammar and Gender
Butch Is a Noun
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

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27 books

Social Constructedness Of Sex

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Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
The Spectrum of Sex
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
Between XX and XY

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4 books

Biography Collective

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Beloved Beasts
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep