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Intimate practices : literacy and cultural work in U.S. women's clubs, 1880-1920

Title: Intimate practices : literacy and cultural work in U.S. women's clubs, 1880-1920 / Anne Ruggles Gere.
Author: Gere, Anne Ruggles, 1944-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997.

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Description

xii, 367 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Women's clubs at the turn of the century were numerous, dedicated to a number of issues, and crossed class, religious, and racial lines. Emphasizing the intimacy engendered by shared reading and writing in these groups, Anne Ruggles Gere contends that these literacy practices meant that club members took an active part in reinventing the nation during a period of major change. Gere uses archival material that documents club members' perspectives and activities around such issues as Americanization, womanhood, peace, consumerism, benevolence, taste, and literature and offers a rare depth of insight into the interests and lives of American women from the fin de sïcle through the beginning of the roaring twenties. Intimate Practices is unique in its exploration of a range of women's clubs -- Mormon, Jewish, white middle-class, African American, and working class -- and paints a vast and colorful multicultural, multifaceted canvas of these widely-divergent women's groups. - Publisher.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-345) and index.

Contents

Literacy and intimacy -- Constructing and contesting Americanization(s) -- Valuing and devaluing dollars -- Fashioning American womanhood(s) -- (Re)calibrating culture -- (Un)professional reading and writing -- Images and public memory.

ISBN

0252023013
9780252023019
0252066049
9780252066047

LCCN

96025327

OCLC

ocm35029540
35029540
SCSB-2120541

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library