Author: Helen Dawes BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Two College Girls
Author: Helen Dawes BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
Author: Lynn PerilPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From her first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest, the college girl has attracted criticism, advice, and regulation from her elders--not to mention some enduring images in popular culture. Is she a geek in glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This book brings together women's history and popular culture in a readable blend of information, insight and humor, peppered with photographs and other femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s.--From publisher description.
Finding List
Author: The Clubwomen's Daughters
Author: Gwen TarboxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317776038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditionally male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness, and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female cooperation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the center of society's debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women. Authors discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emma Dunham Kelley, Laura Lee Hope (psuedonym for Lilian Garis), Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Wirt Benson), and Margaret Sutton.
Intimate Communities
Author: Sherrie A. InnessPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The public image of the college woman of the Progressive Era was transformed from that of a homely, sexless oddity, doomed to spinsterhood, to that of a vibrant, attractive, athletic young woman, who would eventually marry. This study shows how the many popular representations of student life at women's colleges during that time not only described the college woman, but also helped to constitute her. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
Author: Lynn PerilPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393349942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl. A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust of the educated woman. Thus such lofty cultural expressions as Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) and a raft of naughty pictorials in men’s magazines. As in Pink Think, Lynn Peril combines women’s history and popular culture—peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s—in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity.
Inarticulate Longings
Author: Jennifer ScanlonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100014335X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Inarticulate Longings explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture by examining the advertising industry in the early 20th century.
You Want Fries With That
Author: Prioleau AlexanderPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628721103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Ever fantasized about quitting your job and starting over? Prioleau Alexander did just that. Here is his laugh-out-loud funny, endearing, and humbling exploration of life at minimum wage. Alexander walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive, seeking a life “like that dude on Kung Fu.” Over the next year, he worked minimum-wage jobs as a pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch. He reveals a side of America that is rarely seen and questions the stale white-collar notions of a deeper, more meaningful life beyond the cubicle. In You Want Fries With That? Prioleau explores life at minimum wage and proves unequivocally that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
The Independent
Author: Mean Things Happening in this Land
Author: H. L. MitchellPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles—against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class—to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields. In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author’s posthumous corrections and additions.