Publications of Gabriel N. Rosenberg
%% Books
@book{fds298336,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural
America},
Series = {Politics and Culture in Modern America},
Pages = {312 pages},
Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
Year = {2015},
ISBN = {978-0-8122-4753-4},
url = {http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15441.html},
Abstract = {"Eureka! Who would have thought that a history of the 4-H
club could brilliantly illuminate so many far corners of
knowledge: state projects of masculinity and reproduction,
patriotism, modernity, imperialism, race, eugenics and more.
Gabriel N. Rosenberg's bio-political view is original,
surprising, deeply-sourced, convincing, and a delightful
read."—James C. Scott, Yale University "This beautifully
crafted study offers a braided history of the state, the
body, and the countryside. At its center is the 4-H club,
which Rosenberg brilliantly reveals not as a nostalgic relic
of an agrarian past but as an active engine of modern
bio-politics. Whether or not you have ever set foot at the
county fair, The 4-H Harvest is an absorbing and utterly
original read."—Margot Canaday, Princeton University
"Gabriel N. Rosenberg's masterful history of 4-H is the
first in-depth study of an institution that every historian
of agriculture, not to mention every rural American,
recognizes as an essential component of the modern rural
landscape. The project delivers a sophisticated mix of
cultural, political, and economic history that exposes the
hidden hands and visible bodies at work in constructing
twentieth-century U.S. governance in the American
heartland."—Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia 4-H, the
iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans
over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of
the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its
origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization
efforts, through its role in the administration of federal
programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status
as an instrument of international development in Cold War
battlegrounds like Vietnam and Latin America. In domestic
and global settings, 4-H's advocates dreamed of transforming
rural economies, communities, and families. Organizers
believed the clubs would bypass backward patriarchs
reluctant to embrace modern farming techniques. In their
place, 4-H would cultivate efficient, capital-intensive
farms and convince rural people to trust federal expertise.
The modern 4-H farm also featured gender-appropriate
divisions of labor and produced healthy, robust children. To
retain the economic potential of the "best" youth, clubs
insinuated state agents at the heart of rural family life.
By midcentury, the vision of healthy 4-H'ers on family farms
advertised the attractiveness of the emerging agribusiness
economy. With rigorous archival research, Gabriel N.
Rosenberg provocatively argues that public acceptance of the
political economy of agribusiness hinged on federal efforts
to establish a modern rural society through effective
farming technology and techniques as well as through
carefully managed gender roles, procreation, and sexuality.
The 4-H Harvest shows how 4-H, like the countryside it often
symbolizes, is the product of the modernist ambition to
efficiently govern rural economies, landscapes, and
populations.},
Key = {fds298336}
}
%% Book Chapters
@misc{fds352572,
Author = {Rosenberg, G},
Title = {Animals},
Pages = {32-41},
Booktitle = {The Routledge History of American Sexuality},
Year = {2020},
ISBN = {9781315637259},
Abstract = {This book is an invaluable resource for students or scholars
seeking to grasp current research on the history of
sexuality and is a seminal text for undergraduate and
graduate courses on American history, Sexuality Studies,
Women's Studies, ...},
Key = {fds352572}
}
@misc{fds298332,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {A Classroom in the Barnyard: Reproducing Heterosexuality in
American 4-H},
Booktitle = {Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer
Studies},
Publisher = {New York University Press},
Editor = {Gray, M and Johnson, C and Gilley, B},
Year = {2016},
Key = {fds298332}
}
@misc{fds305639,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Breeds and Breeding},
Volume = {10},
Booktitle = {Animals},
Publisher = {Macmillan},
Editor = {Juno Parrenas},
Year = {2015},
Month = {July},
Key = {fds305639}
}
@misc{fds298333,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Youth as Infrastructure: 4-H and the Intimate State in the
1920s Rural United States},
Booktitle = {Boundaries of the State in U.S. History},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Editor = {Sparrow, J and Novak, W and Sawyer, S},
Year = {2015},
ISBN = {9780226277646},
url = {http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo21386415.html},
Key = {fds298333}
}
@misc{fds298331,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Department of Agriculture},
Booktitle = {Encyclopedia of American Environmental History},
Publisher = {Facts on File},
Editor = {Brosnan, K},
Year = {2010},
ISBN = {0816067937},
Key = {fds298331}
}
@misc{fds298334,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {The Charleston Slave Conspiracy of 1822},
Volume = {2},
Pages = {163-190},
Booktitle = {Conflicts in American History: The Early Republic,
1783-1860},
Publisher = {Facts on File},
Editor = {Nicholson, CB},
Year = {2010},
ISBN = {0816070938},
Key = {fds298334}
}
%% Journal Articles
@article{fds226648,
Author = {G.N. Rosenberg and M. Honeck},
Title = {Transnational Generations: Organizing Youth in the Cold
War},
Journal = {Diplomatic History},
Volume = {38},
Number = {2},
Year = {2014},
Month = {April},
ISSN = {1467-7709},
Key = {fds226648}
}
%% Papers Submitted
@article{fds357652,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {On the scene of zoonotic intimacies jungle, market, pork
plant},
Journal = {Transgender Studies Quarterly},
Volume = {7},
Number = {4},
Pages = {646-656},
Year = {2020},
Month = {November},
Abstract = {COVID-19, like HIV/AIDS before it, is being allegorized as a
cost of perverse intimacies with nature. This essay surveys
three scenes of intimate zoonotic exchange — the jungle,
the wet market, and the pork plant — and maps how each
contributes to the operation of racial capitalism.},
Doi = {10.1215/23289252-8665341},
Key = {fds357652}
}
@article{fds352560,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {No Scrubs: Livestock breeding, eugenics, and the state in
the early twentieth-century United States},
Journal = {Journal of American History},
Volume = {107},
Number = {2},
Pages = {362-387},
Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
Year = {2020},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1093/jahist/jaaa179},
Key = {fds352560}
}
@article{fds351383,
Author = {Way, and Okie, and Funes-Monzote, and Nance, and Rosenberg, and Specht, and Swart},
Title = {Roundtable: Animal History in a Time of Crisis},
Journal = {Agricultural History},
Volume = {94},
Number = {3},
Pages = {444-444},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2020},
Doi = {10.3098/ah.2020.094.3.444},
Key = {fds351383}
}
@article{fds344564,
Author = {Rosenberg, G},
Title = {How Meat Changed Sex},
Journal = {GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies},
Volume = {23},
Number = {4},
Pages = {473-507},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2017},
Month = {October},
Abstract = {<jats:p>The article explores the history and structure of
American laws criminalizing sexual contact between humans
and animals to demonstrate how the ecological conditions of
late capitalism are remaking sexual taxonomies, practices,
and identities. It notes that the majority of these statutes
have been enacted within the past three decades and most
contain language that explicitly exempts animal husbandry
and veterinary medicine from prosecution. The article
explores the legislative politics that produce these
exemptions and exposes an underlying ambiguity: in the age
of industrial reproduction, the “accepted practices” of
animal husbandry can be distinguished from bestiality only
through legal fiat. The structure of the laws exempts human
sexual contact with animals when it reproduces biocapital
and produces “perverse” bestialists and “normal”
farmers as mirrored categories, distinguished not by their
relations to animals but by their relations to capital.
Finally, the article reads this insight against the
biopolitical theorist Giorgio Agamben's concept of
anthropogenesis and notes that such exemptions reveal a
limitation in his theory. In place of the timeless ritualism
of Agamben's “anthropological machine,” the article
argues for an account of speciation that recognizes
strategic gradations of pain and pleasure, the critical role
of sexual violence and reproduction, and processes of
trans-speciative procreation.</jats:p>},
Doi = {10.1215/10642684-4157487},
Key = {fds344564}
}
@article{fds298329,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {A Race Suicide Among the Hogs: The Biopolitics of Pork in
the United States, 1865-1940},
Journal = {American Quarterly},
Volume = {68},
Number = {1},
Pages = {49-73},
Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
Year = {2016},
ISSN = {0003-0678},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000372946900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.1353/aq.2016.0007},
Key = {fds298329}
}
@article{fds298335,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN and Honeck, M},
Title = {Transnational Generations: Organizing Youth and Cold War
International Relations, 1945-1980},
Volume = {38},
Number = {2},
Year = {2014},
Month = {April},
ISSN = {1467-7709},
Key = {fds298335}
}
@article{fds352561,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Youth as Infrastructure: 4-H and the Intimate State in the
1920s Rural United States},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Editor = {Sparrow, J and Novak, W and Sawyer, S},
Year = {2013},
Key = {fds352561}
}
%% Book Reviews
@article{fds344568,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural
America},
Journal = {JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY},
Volume = {25},
Number = {1},
Pages = {180-182},
Publisher = {UNIV TEXAS PRESS},
Year = {2016},
Month = {January},
Key = {fds344568}
}
@article{fds344566,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S.
Literature, 1850-1905},
Journal = {AMERICAN LITERATURE},
Volume = {88},
Number = {2},
Pages = {408-410},
Year = {2016},
Key = {fds344566}
}
@article{fds344565,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of
Food},
Journal = {AMERICAN LITERATURE},
Volume = {88},
Number = {2},
Pages = {408-410},
Year = {2016},
Key = {fds344565}
}
@article{fds298339,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the
Politics of Sight, by Timothy Pachirat},
Journal = {Agricultural History},
Volume = {87},
Number = {2},
Pages = {259-261},
Year = {2013},
Month = {Spring},
ISSN = {1533-8290},
Key = {fds298339}
}
@article{fds298338,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in
Postwar North America, by Heather Murray},
Journal = {The Journal of the History of Childhood and
Youth},
Volume = {5},
Number = {2},
Pages = {337-339},
Year = {2012},
Month = {Spring},
ISSN = {1939-6724},
Key = {fds298338}
}
@article{fds298330,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Farms,
1920–1950},
Journal = {History: Reviews of New Books},
Volume = {35},
Number = {2},
Pages = {59-59},
Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
Year = {2007},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {0361-2759},
Doi = {10.1080/03612759.2007.10527016},
Key = {fds298330}
}
%% Other
@misc{fds344567,
Author = {Rosenberg, G},
Title = {Fetishizing Family Farms},
Journal = {The Boston Globe},
Year = {2016},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds344567}
}
@misc{fds298326,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Where are the Animals in the History of Sexuality?},
Journal = {Notches: (Re)marks on the History of Sexuality},
Year = {2014},
Month = {September},
url = {http://notchesblog.com/2014/09/02/where-are-animals-in-the-history-of-sexuality/},
Key = {fds298326}
}
@misc{fds298327,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {Learning to Hate the Pacers, a Team I Have Long
Loved},
Journal = {Indianapolis Star},
Year = {2014},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds298327}
}
@misc{fds298328,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {A Painful Retreat on Child Labor},
Journal = {Raleigh News-Observer},
Year = {2012},
Month = {May},
Key = {fds298328}
}
@misc{fds298340,
Author = {Rosenberg, GN},
Title = {The Programa Interamericano para la Juventud Rural and Rural
Modernization in Cold War Latin America},
Journal = {Research Reports of the Rockefeller Archives},
Year = {2011},
Key = {fds298340}
}