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Author : Janina Corda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783828836808
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Images of Women in 20th-Century American Literature and Culture written by Janina Corda and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Bearden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Images of Women written by Barbara Bearden and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Gourley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822560607
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Flappers and the New American Woman written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.
Author : Tyrone R. Simpson II
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113701489X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature written by Tyrone R. Simpson II and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.
Author : Emily Westkaemper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813576350
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Selling Women's History written by Emily Westkaemper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women’s History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women’s wide-ranging capabilities. On one hand, Emily Westkaemper examines how this was a marketing ploy, as Madison Avenue co-opted women’s history to sell everything from Betsy Ross Red lipstick to Virginia Slims cigarettes. But she also shows how pioneering adwomen and female historians used consumer culture to publicize histories that were ignored elsewhere. Their feminist work challenged sexist assumptions about women’s subordinate roles. Assessing a dazzling array of media, including soap operas, advertisements, films, magazines, calendars, and greeting cards, Selling Women’s History offers a new perspective on how early- and mid-twentieth-century women saw themselves. Rather than presuming a drought of female agency between the first and second waves of American feminism, it reveals the subtle messages about women’s empowerment that flooded the marketplace.
Author : Catherine Gourley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822568047
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Rosie and Mrs. America written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how popular culture during the Great Depression and later during the Second World War influenced the lives of women.
Author : Caroline Field Levander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521593748
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Nation written by Caroline Field Levander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the relationship between women's speech and nineteenth-century American literary culture.
Author : Catherine Gourley
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822560593
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five volumes examine the conflicting images of women in popular culture (advertising, music, film, radio and journalism) and the ways in which women reacted to or rebelled against these images during the decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Deborah Barker
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754085
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature written by Deborah Barker and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In their challenge to a gendered, racialized evolutionary aesthetics as embodied in the female copyist as an icon of cultural reproduction, these women writers enact in a fictional format what many recent feminists address at the theoretical level: a resistance to essentialist definitions of women's nature and to "universal" standards of high culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stanford University. Center for Research on Women
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080618
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Coming to Light written by Stanford University. Center for Research on Women and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 16 essays discusses the broad relationship of women poets to the American literary tradition
Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486541
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.
Author : Ilana Nash
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253218025
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book American Sweethearts written by Ilana Nash and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive lessons from these cultural icons, the overwhelming message conveyed by the characters and stories they inhabit stresses the dominance of the father and the teenage girl's otherness, subordination, and ineptitude. As sweet as a cherry lollipop and as tangy as a Sweetart, this book is an entertaining yet thoughtful exploration of the image of the American girl.
Author : Elizabeth Ammons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535981X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Conflicting Stories written by Elizabeth Ammons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Summers Kelley, and Nella Larsen. The discussion focuses on the differences in their work and the similarities that unite them, particularly their determination to experiment with narrative form as they explored and voiced issues of power for women. Analyzing the historical context that both enabled and limited American women writers at the turn of the century, Ammons provides detailed readings of many texts and offers extensive commentary on the interaction between race and gender. This book joins the deepening discussion of modern women writers' creation of themselves as artists and raises fundamental questions about the shape of American literary history as it has been constructed in the academy.
Author : Sara L. Crosby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319964631
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Sara L. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith.
Author : Miriam S. Gogol
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149854679X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 written by Miriam S. Gogol and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented, misrepresented, and underrepresented in American realistic and naturalistic literature (1865–1930), and by later authors influenced by realism and naturalism. Points explored include: the historical vocational realities of working women (e.g., factory workers, seamstresses, maids, teachers, writers, prostitutes, etc.); the distortions in literary representations of female work; the ways in which these representations still inform the lives of working women today; and new perspectives from queer theory, immigrant studies, and race and class analyses. These essays draw on current feminist thought while remaining mindful of the historicity of the context. The essayists discuss important women writers of the period (for instance, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rachel Crothers, Willa Cather, and the understudied Ann Petry), as well as canonical writers like Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, and William Dean Howells. The discussions touch on a variety of literary and artistic genres: novels, short stories, other forms of fiction, biographies, dramas, and films. In the introductory essay and throughout the collection, the term “working women in the United States” is deconstructed; the historical and cultural definitions of “work,” and the words “work in America” are redefined through the lens of genders.
Author : George Hutchinson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545967
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Facing the Abyss written by George Hutchinson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cruelty. They probed the darkness that the war opened up and confronted bigotry, existential guilt, ecological concerns, and fear about the nature and survival of the human race. In Facing the Abyss, George Hutchinson offers readings of individual works and the larger intellectual and cultural scene to reveal the 1940s as a period of profound and influential accomplishment. Facing the Abyss examines the relation of aesthetics to politics, the idea of universalism, and the connections among authors across racial, ethnic, and gender divisions. Modernist and avant-garde styles were absorbed into popular culture as writers and artists turned away from social realism to emphasize the process of artistic creation. Hutchinson explores a range of important writers, from Saul Bellow and Mary McCarthy to Richard Wright and James Baldwin. African American and Jewish novelists critiqued racism and anti-Semitism, women writers pushed back on the misogyny unleashed during the war, and authors such as Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams reflected a new openness in the depiction of homosexuality. The decade also witnessed an awakening of American environmental and ecological consciousness. Hutchinson argues that despite the individualized experiences depicted in these works, a common belief in art’s ability to communicate the universal in particulars united the most important works of literature and art during the 1940s. Hutchinson’s capacious view of American literary and cultural history masterfully weaves together a wide range of creative and intellectual expression into a sweeping new narrative of this pivotal decade.
Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813539773
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Portraits of the New Negro Woman written by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta's frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety of contradictory meanings that often transcended racial, class, and gender boundaries. In this engaging narrative, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson uses the writings of Nella Larsen and Jessie Fauset as well as the work of artists like Archibald Motley and William H. Johnson to illuminate the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of competing arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond.
