Table of Contents “...Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason -- The foreign policy "establishment" -- The reproduction of imperial manhood -- Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity -- "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment -- The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood -- Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition -- John F. ...”

Table of Contents “..."Women always did this work" : slave women and plantation labor -- "Ties to bind them all together" : the social and reproductive labor of slave women -- "A hard fight for we" : slave women and the Civil War -- "Without mercy" : the end of war and the final destruction of lowcountry slavery -- "The simple act of emancipation : the first year of freedom -- "In their own way" -- women and work in the postbellum South -- "And so to establish family relations" : race, gender, and family in the postbellum crisis of free labor....”

Table of Contents “...Steel axes and security in exchange for Christian habits. Monogamy and reproduction stronger than crowd diseases....”