Pamela Haag

Award-Winning Author and Essayist

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Writing Archive

Selected Publications – Booksline


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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

(New York: Basic Books, 2016)
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Marriage Confidential: Love in the Post-Romantic Age

(New York: HarperCollins, 2011)
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Voices of a Generation: Teenage Girls Report on Their Lives Today

(New York: Marlowe: 2000)
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Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism

(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
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Selected Publications – Essaysline

Pamela Haag Essayist for Big Think magazine
Pamela Haag Essay Archive at Big Think Magazine

https://bigthink.com/people/pamelahaag/
Click through to view all of the articles and essays from Pamela Haag at Big Think Magazine

Zócalo

“Why the Winchester Rifle Heiress Built Herself a Haunted Mansion” May 9, 2016:
zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/07/05/winchester-gun-heiress-created-victorian-mansion-designed-haunted/chronicles/where-i-go/
The piece has also been featured on WhatItMeansToBeAmerican.org, our partnership site with the Smithsonian.

Campaign for The American Reader

“Pg. 99: Pamela Haag’s ‘The Gunning of America'” July 5, 2016:
americareads.blogspot.com/2016/05/pg-99-pamela-haags-gunning-of-america.html

Wall Street Journal

“The Commercial Origins of American Gun Culture” April 22, 2016:
www.wsj.com/articles/american-gun-cultures-commercial-origins-1461335155

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Connecticut Explored

“How Connecticut-Made Guns Won The West” Winter 2016
pamelahaag.com/writing-archive/connecticut-explored

The American Scholar

“Death by Treacle” Spring 2012
theamericanscholar.org/death-by-treacle

The American Scholar

“The Embarrassment of Riches” Summer 2006, Re-published at longform.org. January, 2012.
theamericanscholar.org/the-embarrassment-of-riches/

NPR Program “TELL ME MORE”

 “A City on the Wire,” On-air essay, originally aired September 10, 2007
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14287176

Chronicle of Higher Education

“IS it Worth It? Impolite Things about the Elite College Mystique that Graduates Won’t Tell You,” October 31, 2011 pamelahaag.com/pdf/chroniclereview_nov2011.pdf

Slate

“A Mommy Life Unmodified” August 3, 2012
Link coming soon…

Michigan Quarterly Review

“Whiplash: A Secret History of Women’s Politics,” Winter 2008 pamelahaag.com/pdf/mqr2008.pdf 

The Antioch Review

“Mothering Managers and Managing Mothers: A Curious Twist on American Ambition,” Spring 2006

Huffington Post

“Are We in the Post-Romantic Age?”February 9, 2011
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/are-we-in-the-postromanti_b_820354.html

The Times of London, Sunday Magazine

“No Sex,” December 17, 2011 pamelahaag.com/pdf/londontimes_dec2011.pdf

The Times of London, Style Magazine

“Post-Romantic Age,” December 11, 2011 pamelahaag.com/pdf/timesoflondon_cake.pdf

The Times of London, Style Magazine

“Ode to the Workhorse Wife,” September 2, 2011 pamelahaag.com/pdf/londontimes_oct2011.pdf

New York Post

“Does Marriage Have a Future?” May 27, 2011 nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists
/the_future_of_marriage_7rwauOT3setuopZ4olR6LK

New Humanist

“A Humanist ‘Defense of Marriage”September-October, 2011 newhumanist.org.uk/2650/unholy-matrimony

Ms. Magazine

“Where’s That Smoking Gun?”, Fall 2004
msmagazine.com/fall2004/sexdiscrimination.asp

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Navigating the New Subtleties of Sex-Discrimination Cases in Academe, February 11, 2005

Rail Magazine

“Helping New York City’s Transit Lifeline,” Fall 2004

Urbanite

“Massive Change: What if Design Could Change the World?” May 2005 urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/massive-change/Content?oid=1245709

Hispanic Outlook

“The Case of Not Playing Well With Others: Cultural Profiling in Universities?” February 14, 2005

Separated by Sex

“A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education,”(Washington, DC: AAUW Educational Foundation, 1997)

Educational Leadership 56, #5

“Gender Equity in Cyberspace,” February 1999

South Atlantic Quarterly 95, #3

“A 50,000 Watt Sports Bar: Talk Radio in the 1980s and the Ethic of the Fan,” Summer, 1996

New Haven Review

“On Marriage Envy and Shame,”  Winter, 2010
newhavenreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/NHR7-Haag.pdf

Carte Blanche

“Call Me Isabelle: Girls’ Names, Baby Dolls, and the Rise of Antiquarian Feminism,” November 2011 carte-blanche.org/call-me-isabelle/

Huffington Post

“The Bullshit Paradox”
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/

Huffington Post

“Whoever said that Feminism was About your Happiness?” March 10, 2011
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/feminism-happiness_b_830221.html

Huffington Post

“In Praise of my Dumb-as-Dirt Stupid Phone” 
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/

Huffington Post

“The Modern Family: Mired in Red-Tape Conversation”  April 11, 2011
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/family-conversations_b_843091.html

Huffington Post

“Steve Jobs: Capitalist as Romantic” 
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/

Huffington Post

“The Neighbor Break Up”     
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/

Huffington Post

“The ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in the Age of Google”
huffingtonpost.com/pamela-haag-phd/

Polipop

Fruitful Absurdity, January 2012 art catalog essay

Selected Publications – Opinion Piecesline

Christian Science Monitor

“Facing Up to Baltimore’s Gritty Reality,” August 6, 2007
csmonitor.com/2007/0806/p09s02-coop.html


Washington Post

“A Case for Coeducation,” March 29, 2004 
pamelahaag.com/pdf/washpost_2004.pdf

Selected Publications – Scholarly Articlesline

The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History

“Americanization and the Meaning of Citizenship” Gloria Steinem and Gwendolyn Mink, eds., (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997)

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

“Putting Your Body on the Line:” Theories of Violence and Feminist Politics of Rape, 1968-1975,” (Fall, 1996)

American Sexual Politics

Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War“ ‘In Search of the Real Thing:’ Ideologies of Romance, True Loveand Female Sexual Subjectivity in the ‘Modern’ Context,” John Fout, ed.,(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Journal of Social History 26, #2

“The Ill-Use of a Wife:’ Patterns of Working-Class Violence in Domestic and Public New York City, 1860-1880,”(March, 1992)

Maryland Historical Magazine 36, #3

“ ‘Commerce in Souls:’ Vice, Virtue and Women’s Waged Work in Baltimore, 1900-1915,” (October, 1991)

Radical History Review

“Power and the New Cultural History,” Elizabeth Lunbeck Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America, The Psychiatric Persuasion (Fall 1995)

Selected Publications – Research for a General Audienceline

Beyond the ‘Gender Wars’

A Conversation about Girls, Boys, and Education
(AAUW Educational Foundation: 2001)

Tech-Savvy

Educating Girls in the New Computer Age
(AAUW Educational Foundation: 2000)

Gaining a Foothold

Women’s Transitions through Work and College
(AAUW Educational Foundation: 1999)

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