Ruth M Alexander

Biographic Data

ID3629917
NAMERuth M Alexander
GIVEN NAMESRuth M
FAMILY NAMEAlexander
SIGNATUREALEXANDER R M
AFFILIATIONSColorado State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Fixing the Poor

    Ruth M AlexanderARTICLEJournal of American History2018Cited by: 3

    Seeking to understand U.S. eugenic sterilization in the twentieth century, Molly Ladd-Taylor looks beyond national elites who advanced eugenic science as a route to racial purity. Thirty-two U.S. states passed eugenic sterilization laws, surgically sterilizing at least 63,000 Americans, nearly 80% of them women, and Ladd-Taylor believes that more was at work than eugenic ideology. Focusing on Minnesota, Ladd-Taylor argues that social welfare impe…

  • Devil of the Domestic Sphere

    Ruth M Alexander, Scott C MartinARTICLEJournal of American History2009Cited by: 1

    Scott C. Martin's cultural study places gender and class ideology at the center of the antebellum temperance movement. Through textual analysis of movement literature, Devil of the Domestic Sphere portrays temperance as the instrument of a nascent middle class struggling for status and stability. Temperance reformers hoped to secure worldly success by disavowing alcohol and espousing a gender ideology that cast women as domestic guardians and men…

  • Who Are We, and What Is the Land to Us

    Open AccessRuth M AlexanderARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2008

    In recent years scholars of U.S. culture and society have demonstrated heightened interest in theorizing and questioning the relationships of people to their physical environment. Scientific evidence of environmental calamity caused by modern lifestyles, and public concern about the fragility of a physical world whose resilience was previously taken for granted, have surely encouraged this turn toward environmental inquiry. Contemporary calls to …

  • Panic on the Potomac

    Ruth M AlexanderARTICLEDiplomatic History2006

    Republicans in Congress warned of the threat posed to national security by homosexuals in the State Department as early as 1947, at the very start of the Cold War, prompting the DOS to establish a loyalty-security program that quickly found and fired ninety-one homosexual employees. At the time, few beyond Capitol Hill thought to worry about homosexuals on the federal payroll, but Senator Joseph McCarthy's February 1950 tirade against Communists …

  • Like Our Very Own

    Ruth M Alexander, Julie BerebitskyARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article Like Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950 Get access Berebitsky JulieLike Our Very Own: Adoption and the Changing Culture of Motherhood, 1851–1950 2000Lawrence University Press of Kansasviii248$34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1051-0 Ruth M. Alexander Ruth M. Alexander Colorado State University FortCollins, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…

  • Make Love Not War

    Ruth M Alexander, David AllynARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

  • "The Sex Side of Life"

    Ruth M Alexander, Constance M ChenARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1997

  • Priscilla Murolo — The Common Ground of Womanhood

    Open AccessRuth M AlexanderARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…1997

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • Bad Girls and Masked Men

    Carolyn Strange, Ruth M Alexander et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1997

    Ruth M. Alexander, The Girl Problem: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1995). George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books 1994). Mary E. Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the U.S., 1885-1920 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press 1995

  • "The "Girl Problem

    Elaine S Abelson, Ruth M Alexander et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

  • Swindler, Spy, Rebel

    Ruth M Alexander, Kathleen De GraveARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kathleen De Grave. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995. xii, 270 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1005-8.) Get access Ruth M. Alexander Ruth M. Alexander Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 223–224, http…

  • "The "Girl Problem

    Barbara Brenzel, Ruth M AlexanderARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996Cited by: 1

  • Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912

    Ruth M Alexander, Cheryl J FooteARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1991

  • We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters

    Ruth M AlexanderARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article "We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters": Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840–1850 Get access Ruth M. Alexander Ruth M. Alexander assistant professor of history Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 763–785, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901529 Published: 01 December 1988

  • Gender in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood

    Open AccessRuth M AlexanderARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research1987References: 3