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23%OFFJennifer L. Fleissner - Women, Compulsion, Modernity - 9780226253107 - V9780226253107
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Women, Compulsion, Modernity

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Description for Women, Compulsion, Modernity Paperback. Life in America at the turn of the 19th century has been characterised as distinctly male orientated. Fleissner disputes this popular view and uncovers a new understanding of the era through naturalism, the prominent literary style of the time. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims in fact shaped the period's cultural mainstream. ?Women, Compulsion, Modernity? reopens a moment when the young American woman embodied both the promise and threat of a modernizing world. Fleissner shows that this era's expanding opportunities for women were inseparable from the same modern developments--industrialization, consumerism--typically believed to constrain human freedom. With ?Women, Compulsion, and Modernity?, Fleissner creates a ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Women in Culture and Society Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226253107
SKU
V9780226253107
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