Becoming visible : women's presence in late nineteenth-century America

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    • Floyd, Janet

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Becoming visible : women's presence in late nineteenth-century America

edited by Janet Floyd ... [et al.]

（DQR studies in literature, 45）

Rodopi, 2010

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"This volume began in June 2005 at King's College London with a colloquium, 'Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910'"--Acknowledgements

Bibliography: p. [331]-353

Includs index

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内容説明

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 throughout American society. The essays show how, across the USA, it was fundamentally women who drove changes in their visibility forward, in groups and as individuals. Their motivations, activities and understandings were essential to shaping the character of their present society and the nation's future. The book establishes that these women's engagement with American society and culture cannot be simply understood in terms of the traditional polarities of inside/outside and private/public, since these frames do not fit the complexities of what was happening, be it women's occupation of geographic space, their new patterns of employment, their advocacy of working-class or ethnic rights, or their literary or cultural engagement with their milieux. Such women as Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Jane Addams, Rebecca Harding Davis, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott and Kate Douglas Wiggin all come under consideration in the light of these radical changes.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Alison Easton, R.J. Ellis, Janet Floyd, and Lindsey Traub: Introduction: Becoming Visible The Changing Geography of Public and Private Anne M. Boylan: Claiming Visibility: Women in Public / Public Women in the United States, 1865-1910 Janet Zandy: Dangerous Working-class Women: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Margaret Walsh: Visible Women in the Needle Trades: Revisiting the Clothing Industry in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries S.J. Kleinberg: Women's Employment in the Public and Private Spheres, 1880-1920 Mia Bay: "If Iola Were a Man": Gender, Jim Crow and Public Protest in the Work of Ida B. Wells Alison Easton: "Outdoor Relief": Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Adams Fields and the Visit in Gilded Age America Stepping Out: Bodies, Spaces and the Cultural Representation of Visibility Lindsey Traub: Negotiating Visibility: Louisa May Alcott's Narrative Experiments R.J. Ellis: "People Will Think You Have Struck an Attitude": Fashionable Space in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins' Novels Janet Floyd: "Magnificent Equipment": Body, Sound and Space in the Representation of the Female Singer Peter Rawlings: The Painful Production of Verena Tarrant: John Locke and The Bostonians Karen L. Kilcup: "The True American Woman": Narcissa Owen's Embodied National Narrative Shirley Foster: American Women Travelers and the Material Feminine Becoming "Modern" Timothy A. Hickman: Gendering Modernity: Frances E. Willard's Politics of Technological Sentimentality Susan K. Harris: Women, Anti-imperialism and America's Christian Mission Abroad: The Impact of the Philippine-American War Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index

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