Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Golden Keepsake, Or, Ladies' Wreath
Author: The Golden Keepsake, Or Ladies' Wreath
Author: Josiah Moody FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Picturing Political Power
Author: Allison K. LangePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
"For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward"--
Bulletin of Bibliography
Author: The Remembered Gate
Author: Barbara J. BergPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195027044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Blurb: In this groundbreaking chronicle of the beginning of woman's emancipation Barbara Berg refutes the traditional interpretation that the women's movement emerged from the experiences of female abolitionists. Instead, she place the inception of feminism in the earliest years of the nineteenth century. Dr. Berg finds its roots in the complex responses to intricate social change that accompanied the urbanization of America, maintaining that the rise of the industrial city precipitated the subordination of women. Quietly tucked inside, the woman was expected to preserve the home as a haven of peacefulness and order-an artificial environment to compensate for the jarring world outside. Thus women fell victim to the "woman-belle ideal"--The monolithic creed that held women inferior, denying them access to the provinces of knowledge, responsibility, and dignity. Berg shows how women perceived and responded to this situation through an analysis of female invalidism, diaries, and works of fiction. In time, resigned listlessness gave way to an anguished search for identity, as women threw themselves into voluntary benevolent associations, activities that set the stage for a compelling feminist ideology. These activities took women outside the home, creating a context for the recognition of their oppression and helping them muster the spirit to elevate their self-image and, ultimately, their place in society. The effects of urban growth on the transformation of women's consciousness became evident through a study of the extant records of more than 150 female voluntary societies that flourished between 1800 and 1860. Newspaper accounts, municipal records, city guidebooks, and even popular songs reveal the gradual transformation of the ideas of women and men about themselves, each other, and their society. This book is the latest volume in The Urban Life in America series, edited by Richard C. Wade.
Bulletin of Bibliography & Magazine Notes
Author: Literary Annuals and Gift Books
Author: Frederick Winthrop FaxonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
Author: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Author: HolmesAmerican Women Writers
Author: Lina MainieroPublisher: Frederick Ungar
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Reference guide to American women writers with an assessment of each authors work and complete bibliographies.