Becoming visible : women's presence in late nineteenth-century America /
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as they made new kinds of appearances th...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2010.
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| Series: | DQR studies in literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Becoming visible / Alison Easton, R.J. Ellis, Janet Floyd, and Lindsey Traub
- Part I: The changing geography of public and private : Claiming visibility: women in public, public women in the United States, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Boylan
- Dangerous working-class women: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn / Janet Zandy
- Visible women in the needle trades: revisiting the clothing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Margaret Walsh
- Women's employment in the public and private spheres, 1880-1920 / S.J. Kleinberg
- "If Iola were a man": gender, Jim Crow and public protest in the work of Ida B. Wells / Mia Bay
- "Outdoor relief": Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Adams Fields and the visit in gilded age America / Alison Easton
- Part II: Stepping out: bodies, spaces and the cultural representation of visibility : Negotiating visibility: Louisa May Alcott's narrative experiments / Lindsey Traub
- "People will think you have struck an attitude": fashionable space in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins' novels / R.J. Ellis
- "Magnificent equipment": body, sound and space in the representation of the female singer / Janet Floyd
- The painful production of Verena Tarrant: John Locke and the Bostonians / Peter Rawlings
- "The true American woman": Narcissa Owen's embodied national narrative / Karen L. Kilcup
- American women travelers and the material feminine / Shirley Foster
- Part III: Becoming "modern" : Gendering modernity: Frances E. Willard's politics of technological sentimentality / Timothy A. Hickman
- Women, anti-imperialism and America's Christian mission abroad: the impact of the Philippine-American War / Susan K. Harris
- Notes on contributors Select bibliography.
