Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 - 198 pages Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. |
Contents
Domesticity and Modern | 1 |
Jewett | 19 |
Josephine St Pierre Ruffin Pauline Hopkins and | 36 |
Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris | 56 |
The Paradoxes of Objectivity in | 80 |
Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth | 111 |
Afterword | 139 |
Notes | 147 |
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