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Becoming Visible - Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Becoming Visible - Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
Series: DQR Studies in Literature, 45
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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the
later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate
postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a
time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as
they made new kinds of appearances throughout American society. The
essays show how, across the USA, it was fundamentally women who
drove changes in their visibility forward, in groups and as
individuals. Their motivations, activities and understandings were
essential to shaping the character of their present society and the
nation's future. The book establishes that these women's engagement
with American society and culture cannot be simply understood in
terms of the traditional polarities of inside/outside and
private/public, since these frames do not fit the complexities of
what was happening, be it women's occupation of geographic space,
their new patterns of employment, their advocacy of working-class
or ethnic rights, or their literary or cultural engagement with
their milieux. Such women as Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Jane
Addams, Rebecca Harding Davis, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett,
Louisa May Alcott and Kate Douglas Wiggin all come under
consideration in the light of these radical changes.
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