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Author Zink, Amanda J. (Amanda Jane), 1977- author.

Title Fictions of Western American domesticity : Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850-1950 / Amanda J. Zink.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The literature of modern American domesticity -- Delegating domesticity: white women writers and the new American housekeepers -- Dialoging domesticity: resisting and assimilating "The American lady" in early Mexican American women's writing -- Regulating domesticity: Carlisle School's publications and children's books for "American princesses" -- Practicing domesticity: from domestic outing programs to sovereign domesticity -- Epilogue. Fashioning femininity: "Types of American girls"; "Types of Indian girls"; and the "Wrong kind of [Mexican] woman" -- Appendix.
Summary This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?
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Subject Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Women and literature.
History.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Racism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Housewives in literature.
Housewives in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Title Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850-1950
Other Form: Print version: Zink, Amanda J. (Amanda Jane), 1977- Fictions of Western American domesticity. First edition. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018 9780826359186 (DLC) 2017027176
ISBN 9780826359193 (electronic book)
0826359191 (electronic book)
9780826359186 (printed case ; alkaline paper)