Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / / Patricia Marks
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| Autore: |
Marks Patricia <1943->
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| Titolo: |
Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press / / Patricia Marks
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990 |
| ©1990 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 071/.3/082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Press coverage - United States - History - 19th century |
| Women - Press coverage - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Women's rights - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Feminism - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Queen Victoria's Granddaughter; 1. Women and Marriage: ""Running in Blinkers""; 2. Women's Work: More ""Bloomin' Bad Bizness""; 3. Women's Education: ""Maddest Folly Going""; 4. Women's Clubs: ""Girls Will Be Girls""; 5. Women's Fashions: The Shape of Things to Come; 6. Women's Athletics: A Bicycle Built for One; Conclusion: The New Woman; Works Cited; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 1880's and 1890's, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-5863-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787472003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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