| Description |
ix, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
New Americanists
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New Americanists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-382) and index. |
| Contents |
Embodying gender: sentimental materialism in the new republic -- Gender, domesticity and consumption in the 1830's" Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the feminization of American consumerism -- Sentimental consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the aesthetics of middle-class ownership -- Domesticating "blackness": Harriet Jacobs, SoJourner Truth, and the decommodification of the black female body -- Fashioning a free self: consumption, politics, and power in the writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper -- Not "just a cigar": commodity culture and the construction of imperial manhood |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Women consumers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women consumers. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex role. |
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Material culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Material culture. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture in literature. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
0822325160 paper alkaline paper |
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0822324806 cloth alkaline paper |
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