Chapters (46)
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- BEING WEIRD
- Weird
- Todd, Part I
- The Realization
- Daniel, Part I
- Julia, Part I
- Beverly, Part I
- Jess, Part I
- The Exclusion
- Jess, Part II
- Emma, Part I
- Asma, Part I
- The Sting
- Emma, Part II
- Vivienne, Part I
- Alex, Part I
- THE WEIRD ADVANTAGE
- Creativity
- Truth
- Alex, Part II
- Julia, Part II
- HOW TO BE DIFFERENT
- Getting Support
- Julia, Part III
- Comfort with Discomfort
- Beverly, Part II
- Asma, Part II
- Better Than the Rest
- The Big Picture
- Daniel, Part II
- Deana, Part I
- Vivienne, Part II
- Emma, Part III
- Change Yourself
- Todd, Part II
- TO STAY DIFFERENT, OR TO FIND YOUR OWN KIND?
- Staying
- Leaving
- In Between
- Deana, Part II
- Acknowledgments
- Discover More
- Notes
“an Irish Times article”: O’Faolain, N., “What to Do in the Face of Sectarian Hatred?,” Irish Times, February 2, 1998, https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-to-do-in-the-face-of-sectarian-hatred-1.131048.
“Not Fit for Our Society”: Schrag, P., Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2010), 7.
“character and intelligence”: Lodge, H. C., “Lynch Law and Unrestricted Immigration,” The North American Review 152 (1891).
“characters, and paupers—to”: Dingley, F. L., “European Emigration: Studies in Europe of Emigration Moving out of Europe, Especially That Flowing to the United States,” Department of State, 1890, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dWlMAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA208-IA1.
“‘is rapidly increasing,’ Lodge wrote”: Lodge, H. C., “Lynch Law and Unrestricted Immigration,” 1891.
“and ‘worthless race types’”: Schrag, Not Fit for Our Society, 76.
“letter’s author? Adolf Hitler”: Schrag, Not Fit for Our Society, 76.
“public attitudes toward immigration”: Fetzer, J. S., Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 33.
“followers vandalized Jewish stores”: Schrag, Not Fit for Our Society, 36.
“advocated ‘liquidating’”: Irwin, T., Inside the Christian Front (Washington, DC: American Council on Public Affairs, 1940), http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/THR-CF7.PDF.
“that said ‘No Japs Welcome’”: Fetzer, Public Attitudes, 39.
“official language of the U.S.”: Fetzer, Public Attitudes, 42.
“In Detroit in 1982”: Wu, F. H., “Why Vincent Chin Matters,” New York Times, June 22, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/opinion/why-vincent-chin-matters.html.
“dominant WASP norm”: Fetzer, Public Attitudes, 44.
“Betty Friedan called it”: Friedan, B., The Feminine Mystique (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1963), 274.
“sympathizing with the Reds”: Coontz, S., A Strange Stirring: “The Feminine Mystique” and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (New York: Basic Books, 2011), 54.
“not truly male”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 71.
“soon wear themselves out”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 68.
“risked being ostracized”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 12.
“writes, were pitied”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 75.
“Sex Today in Wedded Life”: O’Neill, T., “7 Tips for Keeping Your Man (from the 1950s),” Mental Floss, August 14, 2013, https://theweek.com/articles/461207/7-tips-keeping-man-from-1950s.
“the perfect follower”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 15.
“the standard procedure”: Cornell, B., Betty Cornell’s Teen-Age Popularity Guide (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1953).
“How to Pick a Mate”: Adams, C. R., & Packard, V. O., How to Pick a Mate, the Guide to a Happy Marriage (New York: Dutton, 1946), 83, https://archive.org/details/howtopickmategui00adamrich/page/96.
“according to Adams”: Adams & Packard, How to Pick a Mate, 96.
“want to be on the move”: Adams & Packard, How to Pick a Mate, 99.
“shave their armpits”: Brown, H. G., Sex and the Single Girl (Bernard Geis Associates, 1962).
“describe in their study”: Anand, R., & Winters, M.-F., “A Retrospective View of Corporate Diversity Training from 1964 to the Present,” Academy of Management Learning and Education 7, no. 3 (2008): 356–72.