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The Wayward Woman - Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888-1917 (Hardcover)
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The Wayward Woman - Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888-1917 (Hardcover)
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The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era,
recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and
prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of
female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive
womanhood, this work understands "female waywardness" as the
critical intersection between the rise of female emancipation and
the panic inspired by the period's obsession with sexual
enslavement. Concurrently, it explores the Progressive ambivalence
about compassion and control which unfolded alongside a war on
prostitution that traversed the realms of law, medicine, literature
and politics. Drawing on theories of performativity the author
develops "the wayward woman" as a capacious analytical category
that encompasses all women who, countering the residual injunction
of domesticity, brought new forms of femininity into the light of
the public sphere: the activist, the professional and the divorcee,
but also the female breadwinner, the charity girl and the urban
woman of color--among many others. The book investigates the
continuum of waywardness that stretches from the high-minded New
Woman to the ever-victimized "white slave" as a cultural
battlefield where numerous women stepped across the boundaries of
class, race and respectability to claim new public personas. At the
same time it reads the preoccupation with white slavery both as a
symptom of and an antidote to this wave of change. Through an
innovating collection of sources which brings together sociological
writings, novels, plays, movies and legal documents, the book
rearticulates the tensions of the Progressive Era between gender
roles, blackness and whiteness, reformers and reformed, the
citizens and the state. The Wayward Woman will be of much interest
to students and scholars in the fields of American studies, women
studies and performance studies.
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