Title
- Rethinking The Americas
Attribution
Francesca SawayaPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS151 .S38 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian “cult of domesticity” and the modern “culture of professionalism” to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, Modern Women, Modern Work boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- Women and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- Women — Employment — United States — History — 20th century
- American literature — 20th century — History and criticism
- Authorship — Sex differences — History — 20th century
- Women authors, American — Biography
- Women in literature
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Contents
- We other Victorians: domesticity and modern professionalism
- Domesticity, cultivation, and vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett
- Situated expertise : Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW
- Naturalist sentimentalism and cultural authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana
- "Going over to the standard": the paradoxes of objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather
- Objective domestic critique: anthropology and social reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN
- 0812237439
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