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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America /

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this essay collection studies...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bergman, Jill, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a woman's place is not in the home / Jill Bergman
  • 1. Geography and biography: places in and of Gilman's life. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the US west / Jennifer S. Tuttle and Gary Scharnhorst ; Artistic renderings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Denise D. Knight ; "The Yellow Wall-Paper" as modernist space / William C. Snyder
  • 2. Know your place: limits on women's freedom and power. "Perhaps This Was the Opening of the Gate": Gilman, the west, and the free will problem / Brady Harrison ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Giant Wistaria": a hieroglyph of the female frontier Gothic / Gary Scharnhorst
  • 3. Reclaiming and redefining a "woman's place". "A crazy quilt of a paper": theorizing the place of the periodical in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner fiction / Sari Edelstein ; The power of the postal service in Gilman's "Turned": exposing adultery and empowering women to find a meaningful place / Catherine J. Golden ; Eavesdropping with Charlotte Perkins Gilman: fiction, transcription, and the ethics of interior design / Peter Betjemann ; Recovering the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; or, Reading Gilman in Rome / Jennifer S. Tuttle.