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"Fame is not just for the fellas" : female renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans series /
"Between 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling-and often highly fictionalized-narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The negotiated past. Part I. The birth of a series. Female renown and the politics of commemoration
- Girlhood as a cultural construct in fictional biographies
- Part II. Noted wives and mothers. Fame by association : the gender politics of First Ladies
- Matrimony, domesticity, and the cult of true womanhood
- Part III. Arranged marriages and the freedom of the frontier. Marriages of convenience
- Miscegenation and the sexual exploitation of indigenous peoples
- Part IV. Braving enemy fire : she-warriors in masculine spaces. "Filler feminism" and disputed claims to military fame
- Civil War heroines and "vacillating feminism"
- Part V. The COFA series redux. "Meddling" Quaker reformers as agents of change
- Radical transformation and reactionary resistance
- Conclusion: Fame is fleeting : the National Women's Hall of Fame.