Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers : The New Woman in the Popular Press /

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The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marks, Patricia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women's rights.
Women > Press coverage.
Feminism.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Femmes > Droits > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Feminisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Feminisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women > Press coverage > United States > History > 19th century.
Women > Press coverage > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Feminism > United States > History > 19th century.
Feminism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
United States.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880s and 1890s, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780813158631

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