| Description |
xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 1 |
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Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 1
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ann Heilmann / Margaret Beetham -- PART 1. HYBRIDITIES -- Bertha Thomas: the New Woman and 'Anglo-Welsh' hybridity / Kirsti Bohata -- A Hungarian New Woman writer and a hybrid autobiographical subject: Margit Kaffka's 'Lyrical notes of a year' / Nóra Séllei -- PART 2. THROUGH THE (PERIODICAL) LOOKING GLASS -- Writing women's history: 'the sex' debates of 1889 / Laurel Brake -- The American New Woman and her influence on the daughters of the Empire of British Columbia in the daily press (1880-95) / Françoise Le Jeune -- Locating the flapper in rural Irish society: the Irish provincial press and the modern woman in the 1920s / Louise Ryan -- Subverting the flapper: the unlikely alliance of Irish popular and ecclesiastical press in the 1920s / Maryann Gialanella Valiulis -- Riding the tiger: ambivalent images of the New Woman in the popular press of the Weimar Republic / Ingrid Sharp -- PART 3. COMMUNITIES OF WOMEN -- Romance, glamour and the exotic: femininity and fashion in Britain in the 1900s / Hilary Fawcett -- Charged with ambiguity: the image of the New Woman in American cartoons / Angelika Köhler -- The day of the girl: Nell Brinkley and the New Woman / Trina Robbins -- 'The woman of the twentieth century': the feminist vision and its reception in the Hungarian press 1904-14 / Judit Acsády -- The New Woman in Japan: radicalism and ambivalence towards love and sex / Muta Kazue -- PART 4: RACE AND THE NEW WOMAN -- 'Natural' divisions/national divisions: whiteness and the American New Woman in the General Federation of Women's Clubs / Jill Bergman -- The birth of national hygiene and efficiency: women and eugenics in Britain and America 1865-1915 / Angelique Richardson |
| Summary |
"This book will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of American Studies, Women's Studies and Women's History."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Consumer behavior.
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Femininity.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Women -- Identity.
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| Author |
Beetham, Margaret, 1919-
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Heilmann, Ann.
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| LC no. |
2003058679 |
| ISBN |
0415299837 |
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