03788nam 22006974a 450 991045395100332120200520144314.01-281-77654-897866117765410-8135-4494-710.36019/9780813544946(CKB)1000000000542091(EBL)358313(OCoLC)476183166(SSID)ssj0000102287(PQKBManifestationID)11138314(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102287(PQKBWorkID)10048736(PQKB)10224733(MiAaPQ)EBC358313(OCoLC)276269634(MdBmJHUP)muse8182(DE-B1597)529220(DE-B1597)9780813544946(Au-PeEL)EBL358313(CaPaEBR)ebr10240591(CaONFJC)MIL177654(OCoLC)1164113335(EXLCZ)99100000000054209120070720d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe American new woman revisited[electronic resource] a reader, 1894-1930 /edited by Martha H. PattersonNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20081 online resource (358 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-4295-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.Defining the new woman in the periodical press -- Women's suffrage and political participation -- Temperance, social purity, and maternalism -- The women's club movement and women's education -- Work and the labor movement -- World War 1 and its aftermath -- Prohibition and sexuality -- Consumer culture, leisure culture, and technolgy -- Evolution, bith control, and eugenics.In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920's, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces. Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman’s prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.WomenUnited StatesHistoryMinority womenUnited StatesHistoryFeminismUnited StatesHistoryWomen's rightsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.WomenHistory.Minority womenHistory.FeminismHistory.Women's rightsHistory.305.48/800973Patterson Martha H.1966-905627MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453951003321The American new woman revisited2491159UNINA