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Author Sawaya, Francesca.

Title Modern women, modern work : domesticity, professionalism, and American writing, 1890-1950 / Francesca Sawaya.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.99287 Sa96m 2004    ---  Available
Description 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Rethinking the Americas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
Contents We other Victorians: domesticity and modern professionalism -- Domesticity, cultivation, and vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett -- Situated expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW -- Naturalist sentimentalism and cultural authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana -- "Going over to the standard": the paradoxes of objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather -- Objective domestic critique: anthropology and social reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 20th century.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0812237439 (acid-free paper)
9780812237436 (acid-free paper)
Standard No. UKM bA3U5877
NZ1 7919518

 
    
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