LEADER 02736nam 2200397 450 001 9910476806303321 005 20230511153037.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566483 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000566483 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566483 100 $a20230511d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKeeping up her geography $ewomen's writing and geocultural space in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture /$fTanya Ann Kennedy 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor & Francis,$d[2007] 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (190 pages) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 311 $a1-135-86328-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Feminism and the Public/Private Divide; Chapter Two Journeys into Urban Interiors; Chapter Three The Secret Properties of Southern Regionalism; Chapter Four Bitter Locations: Self-Representation, Gender, and Nation; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 330 $aRecently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts - the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic - were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World's Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women's urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow's novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley. 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory $y20th century 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a810.9928709045 700 $aKennedy$b Tanya Ann$01261465 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476806303321 996 $a"Keeping up her geography"$92937345 997 $aUNINA