Fictions of Western American domesticity : Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850-1950 / Amanda J. Zink.

Fictions of Western American domesticity : Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850-1950 / Amanda J. Zink.

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This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

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Online dostop:Electronic book from EBSCO
Glavni avtor: Zink, Amanda J. (Amanda Jane), 1977- (Author)
Format: eKnjiga
Jezik:English
Izdano:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Ã2018
Teme:
Women and literature > West (U.S.) > History.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Racism in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Housewives in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Kazalo:
  • Introduction: The literature of modern American domesticity
  • Delegating domesticity: white women writers and the new American housekeepers
  • Dialoging domesticity: resisting and assimilating "The American lady" in early Mexican American women's writing
  • Regulating domesticity: Carlisle School's publications and children's books for "American princesses"
  • Practicing domesticity: from domestic outing programs to sovereign domesticity
  • Epilogue. Fashioning femininity: "Types of American girls"; "Types of Indian girls"; and the "Wrong kind of [Mexican] woman"
  • Appendix.

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