Amanda Frisken

Biographic Data

ID2190090
NAMEAmanda Frisken
GIVEN NAMESAmanda
FAMILY NAMEFrisken
SIGNATUREFRISKEN A
AFFILIATIONSSUNY Old Westbury
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Gillian M. Rodger. Just One of the Boys

    Open AccessAmanda FriskenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    In Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage, ethnomusicologist Gillian M. Rodger explores female-to-male cross-dressing, a specialty act on the nineteenth-century variety stage in the United States and England. Over the course of the century, women dressed as men to land roles and perform for a range of audiences. As the century waned, however, male impersonation gave way as new genres, mixed audiences, ex…

  • Lust on Trial

    Open AccessAmanda K Frisken, Amanda FriskenARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    In the late nineteenth century, Anthony Comstock used his authority as a special inspector for the U.S. Post Office and as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to hunt down and prosecute purveyors of what he deemed erotic materials. Many historians have examined his career, but the art historian Amy Beth Werbel's Lust on Trial is the first to interpret the cultural meanings of the full range of goods and images Comstock c…

  • J. Samaine Lockwood. Archives of Desire

    Amanda FriskenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    In this critical analysis of late-nineteenth century regionalism, J. Samaine Lockwood explores the figure of the “unmarried New England daughter” as both creator and radical resister of the region’s history (8). The book’s four chapters explore how women used not just fictional works, but also colonial revivalism, paintings, photography, tourism, and china collection, to develop a practice Lockwood calls “intimate historicism,” a concept that imp…

  • Writing Reconstruction

    Amanda FriskenARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Writing Reconstruction: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Postwar South Get access By Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xvi, 412 pp. Paper, $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw071 Published: 01 June 2016

  • Reconsidering Gender, Violence, and the State

    Lisa Arellano, Erica L Ball et al.ARTICLERadical History Review2016

  • Living with Lynching

    Amanda FriskenARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 Get access Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Koritha Mitchell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xiv, 251 pp. $40.00.) Amanda Frisken Amanda Frisken State University of New YorkCollege at Old WestburyOld Westbury, New York [email protected] Search for othe…

  • A Song Without Words

    Amanda K Frisken, Amanda FriskenARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2012Cited by: 1References: 8

  • Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution

    Amanda FriskenBOOKVictoria Woodhull's Sexual…2004

    Using contemporary sources Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century