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Painting Professionals
Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930
Häftad, 2001
518 kr
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Thousands of women pursued artistic careers in the United States during the late 19th century. According to census figures, the number of women among the ranks of professional artists rose from 10 per cent to nearly 50 per cent between 1870 and 1890. Examining the effects of this change, Kirsten …
Limits of Sisterhood
The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
Häftad, 1988
616 kr
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In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and …
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Häftad, 1988
474 kr
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Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues …
Secret Eye
The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889
Av Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Virginia I. Burr
Häftad, 1990
635 kr
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The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and reared in the tradition of the southern …
Doing Literary Business
American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1990
591 kr
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Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gail Hamilton, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. She examines the cultural milieu of …
Ladies, Women, and Wenches
Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston
Häftad, 1990
547 kr
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Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines …
Community of Suffering and Struggle
Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945
Häftad, 1991
503 kr
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Elizabeth Faue traces the transformation of the American labor movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Faue explores women's involvement in labor and political organizations and the role of gender and family …
All That Hollywood Allows
Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama
Av Jackie Byars
Häftad, 1991
654 kr
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All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from …
Work of Self-Representation
Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England
Häftad, 1991
518 kr
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In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of ""woman"" and ""feminine"" function in Puritan religious and literary …
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Häftad, 1991
547 kr
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This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a …
Unruly Women
The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
Häftad, 1992
518 kr
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In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates ""unruly"" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how …
Made from This Earth
American Women and Nature
Av Vera Norwood
Häftad, 1993
531 kr
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The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth , Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden …
Entitled to Power
Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
Häftad, 1993
574 kr
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Native American philosophy has enabled Native American cultures to survive more than five hundred years of attempted cultural assimilation. The first edition of this historical and philosophical work was written as a text for the first course in Native Philosophy ever offered by a philosophy …
Revising Life
Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems
Häftad, 1994
578 kr
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'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life--the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.' Choice '[Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous …
U.S. History As Women's History
New Feminist Essays
Häftad, 1995
503 kr
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This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural …
Delinquent Daughters
Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Av Mary E. Odem
Häftad, 1995
474 kr
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Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of …
How Am I to Be Heard?
Letters of Lillian Smith
Av Lillian Smith, Margaret Rose Gladney
Häftad, 1996
564 kr
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This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her …
Toward an Intellectual History of Women
Essays by Linda K. Kerber
Häftad, 1997
518 kr
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The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women's history are widely recognized, and in this collection of essays, Kerber's essential contribution to the field is made clear. In this volume are ten essays which address the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in …
Women Against the Good War
Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947
Häftad, 1997
547 kr
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During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors seeking alternatives to military service entered Civilian Public Service to do forestry, soil conservation, or other 'work of national importance.' But this government-sponsored, church-supported program also attracted some 2,000 …
We Mean to Be Counted
White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Häftad, 1998
518 kr
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Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely …
Yours in Sisterhood
Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism
Häftad, 1998
518 kr
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In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its …
Strangers and Pilgrims
Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Häftad, 1998
503 kr
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Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; ""Old Elizabeth,"" an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times …
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
Häftad, 1998
474 kr
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With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. …
Rank Ladies
Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville
Häftad, 1999
518 kr
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In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. She focuses on the role of gender in struggles over whether high or low culture would …
Civilizing Capitalism
The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era
Häftad, 2000
518 kr
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Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century. Founded in 1899 by affluent women …
Captain Ahab Had a Wife
New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
Av Lisa Norling
Häftad, 2000
474 kr
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife , Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and …
Before Jim Crow
The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia
Av Jane Dailey
Häftad, 2000
474 kr
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Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, …
Taking Haiti
Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Häftad, 2001
485 kr
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The US invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that would last nineteen years - and that fed an American fascination with Haiti that would flourish even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, …
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930
Häftad, 2001
534 kr
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The career and legacy of an extraordinary African American crusader; Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this …
Remaking Respectability
African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Häftad, 2001
518 kr
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How black women challenged and reshaped notions of respectable behavior for women and men; In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved …
