Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Becoming visible : women's presence in late nineteenth-century America / edited by Janet Floyd, Alison Easton, R.J. Ellis and Lindsey Traub.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vii, 370 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series DQR studies in literature, 0921-2507 ; 45
DQR studies in literature ; 45.
Note Papers from a colloquium "Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910", at King's College London, held in June 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Becoming visible / Alison Easton, R.J. Ellis, Janet Floyd, and Lindsey Traub -- Part I: Changing geography of public and private : Claiming visibility: women in public, public women in the United States, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Boylan -- Dangerous working-class women: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn / Janet Zandy -- Visible women in the needle trades: revisiting the clothing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Margaret Walsh -- Women's employment in the public and private spheres, 1880-1920 / S.J. Kleinberg -- "If Iola were a man": gender, Jim Crow and public protest in the work of Ida B. Wells / Mia Bay -- "Outdoor relief": Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Adams Fields and the visit in gilded age America / Alison Easton -- Part II: Stepping out: bodies, spaces and the cultural representation of visibility : Negotiating visibility: Louisa May Alcott's narrative experiments / Lindsey Traub -- "People will think you have struck an attitude": fashionable space in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins' novels / R.J. Ellis -- "Magnificent equipment": body, sound and space in the representation of the female singer / Janet Floyd -- Painful production of Verena Tarrant: John Locke and the Bostonians / Peter Rawlings -- "The true American woman": Narcissa Owen's embodied national narrative / Karen L. Kilcup -- American women travelers and the material feminine / Shirley Foster -- Part III: Becoming "modern" : Gendering modernity: Frances E. Willard's politics of technological sentimentality / Timothy A. Hickman -- Women, anti-imperialism and America's Christian mission abroad: the impact of the Philippine-American War / Susan K. Harris -- Notes on contributors Select bibliography.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Women.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women in public life -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Women in public life.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Women and literature.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Women -- Political activity.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Floyd, Janet, editor.
Easton, Alison, 1943- editor.
Ellis, R. J., 1949- editor.
Traub, Lindsey, editor.
Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910 (London) (2005)
Other Form: Print version: Becoming visible. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 9789042029774 (OCoLC)645159805
ISBN 9789042029781 (electronic book)
9042029781 (electronic book)