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Becoming visible

women's presence in late nineteenth-century America

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Rodopi
Language
English
Pages
370

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Amsterdam, New York

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.

Edition Notes

Papers from a colloquium, "Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910," held at King's College London in June 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index.

Series
DQR studies in literature -- 45, DQR studies in literature -- 45.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.40973, 810.9
Library of Congress
HQ1410 .B43 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 370 p.
Number of pages
370

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31159342M
Internet Archive
becomingvisiblew0000unse_q1f5
ISBN 10
9042029773, 9042029781
ISBN 13
9789042029774, 9789042029781
LCCN
2010285952
OCLC/WorldCat
645159805

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