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1 online resource (vii, 370 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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DQR studies in literature,
0921-2507 ;
45
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DQR studies in literature ; 45.
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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 |
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Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Women in public life -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women in public life. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women and literature. |
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Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Floyd, Janet, editor.
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Easton, Alison, 1943- editor.
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Ellis, R. J., 1949- editor.
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Traub, Lindsey, editor.
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Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910 (London) (2005)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Becoming visible. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 9789042029774 (OCoLC)645159805 |
ISBN |
9789042029781 (electronic book) |
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9042029781 (electronic book) |
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