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The clubwomen's daughters : collectivist impulses in Progressive-era girl's fiction, 1890-1940 /

During the nineteenth-century, American women discovered that they could gain access to traditionally-male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, and the political Woman's Suffrage Organization, the National Colored Women's Association, and the Women's Christian Tempera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tarbox, Gwen Athene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Colección:Garland studies in American popular history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Braving "sarcasm and sneers": the development of the American clubwomen's movement
  • "The power to set things going": the rise of the collectivist impulse in American girls' fiction
  • "Impersonating their citizen brothers": the college heroine's rehearsal for public life
  • Four girls at cottage city: spiritual collectivism in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins' fiction for African-American girls
  • "Mama! Come an' see the suffragists': progressive-era girls' outdoor fiction and the public display of the collectivist impulse
  • The secret of the girl sleuth: the women's community as focal point in depression-era girls' fiction.