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Title No more separate spheres! : a next wave American studies reader / edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (439 pages)
Series Next wave
Next wave (Duke University Press)
Contents Separate spheres, female worlds, woman's place : the rhetoric of women's history / Linda K. Kerber -- "My sister! My sister!" : the rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie / Judith Fetterley -- Herman Melville, wife beating, and the written page / Elizabeth Renker -- Contradictory impulses : María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, resistance theory, and the politics of Chicano/a studies / José F. Aranda Jr. -- Sex, class, and "category crisis" : reading Jewett's transitivity / Marjorie Pryse -- Manifest domesticity / Amy Kaplan -- Passing through the closet in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces / Siobhan Somerville -- Constructing the black masculine : Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography / Maurice Wallace -- Native daughters in the promised land : gender, race, and the question of separate spheres / You-me Park and Gayle Wald -- Poor Eliza / Lauren Berlant -- Representative/democracy : presidents, democratic management, and the unfinished business of male sentimentalism / Dana D. Nelson -- Fathers, sons, sentimentality, and the color line : the not-quite-separate spheres of W.E.B. Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ryan Schneider -- "Few of our seeds ever come up at all" : a dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the work of affect in visionary utopias / Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon
Summary Argues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-422) and index
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SUBJECT University of South Alabama gnd
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Feminism and literature -- United States
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Feminism and literature
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Geschlechterrolle
Literatur
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Davidson, Cathy N., 1949- editor.
Hatcher, Jessamyn, 1971- editor.
LC no. 2001054481
ISBN 9780822383437
0822383438
1283063239
9781283063234
9786613063236
6613063231