Women and work : the labors of self-fashioning / edited by Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil
- Bib ID:
- 5383705
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011
- x, 414 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781443824224
- 1443824224
- Full contents:
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- "Let us own ourselves, our earnings, our genius" : the uneasy marriage of women and work / Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil
- Feminine duty and desire : revising the cultural narrative in Gissing's The Odd Women / Gretchen Braun
- Woman and Labour in the transition from ape to man : women, work, and evolution in the works of Olive Schreiner / Daniel P. Shea
- Reworking professionalism : women doctors in Creamer and Phelps / Kelly Ross
- Nature, Domestic Labor, and Moral Community in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours and Elinor Wyllys / Richard M. Magee
- "Work and Wait" : Louisa May Alcott's female artists / Erin Hendel
- Mixing business with pleasure : the figure of the "Business Girl" in Sinclair Lewis's The Job and Winston Churchill's The Dwelling-Place of Light / Polina Kroik
- "To work is to be socially alive" : the failed promise of domestic service in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's What Diantha Did / Kellen H Graham
- The new (working) woman in Gilman's Herland / Melissa J. Strong
- To dance with "The Hired Girls" : love, labor, and longing in My Antonia / Nancy Von Rosk
- They worked hard for no money : women, labor, and working-class politics in the writing of Meridel Le Sueur / Amy Brady
- Harvesting freedom : women, work, and liberation in J. California Cooper's Family and Octavia Butler's Kindred / Ferents Lafargue
- Women in the public : society women in Edith Wharton's Fiction / Li-Wen Chang
- "Following the fashion" : women, work, and class construction in East Lynne
- Annarose Fitzgerald
- Conduct becoming a 1930s heroine : middle-class ideology and the "strategic self" / Katherine Rogers-Carpenter
- The battle of the bell(e)s : the sweet labor of working through it with bell hooks / Marie-Antoinette Smith.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-395) and index.
- Subject:
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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women employees in literature
- Working class women in literature
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2011
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