Women and work : the labors of self-fashioning / edited by Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mower, Christine Leiren.

Weil, Susanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy. The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being wome...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART II; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; PART III; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; AFTERWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-395) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14150-7

1-4438-2463-1

9786613141507

OCLC:

827209341