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No more separate spheres! : a next wave American studies reader / edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States.
- Feminism and literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life.
- 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 : Maria Ampara Ruiz de Burton, resistance theory, and the politics of Chicano/a studies / Jose 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-422) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063236
- 9781283063234
- 1283063239
- 9780822383437
- 0822383438
- OCLC:
- 220950392
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