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Out in Public - Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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Out in Public - Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the
black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of
nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work
exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public, Alison
Piepmeier focuses on women's bodies as a site for their public
self-construction. Rather than relying on familiar binaries such as
public/private and victim/agent, Piepmeier presents women's public
embodiment as multiple, transitional, strategic, playful, and
contested. Piepmeier looks closely at the lives and works of
actress and playwright Anna Cora Mowatt (1819-1871), Christian
Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), abolitionist and
feminist orator Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), antilynching
journalist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), and Godey's Lady's Book editor
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879). Piepmeier's analysis of these women
places their written documents in conjunction with salient cultural
contexts, including freak shows, scientific writing, tall tales,
and popular visual images of athletic women. By destabilizing and
complicating traditional binary categories, Piepmeier makes
culturally obscured or unreadable aspects of women's lives visible,
offering a more complete understanding of nineteenth-century female
corporeality.
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