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Women and work : the labors of self-fashioning

Title: Women and work : the labors of self-fashioning / edited by Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil.
Publication: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

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x, 414 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Although women today forge careers and earn wages on an unprecedented scale, issues surrounding women and work remain real and vexed. While those issues may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution. Have our questions fundamentally changed as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy? The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. and British writers have addressed the contested history behind these questions. While the historical meaning and experience of work for women has received much scrutiny, less attention has been given to how writers themselves represented work, both as an ideological concept and as a material reality.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-395) and index.

Contents

"Let us own ourselves, our earnings, our genius" : the uneasy marriage of women and work / Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil -- Feminine duty and desire : revising the cultural narrative in Gissing's The Odd Women / Gretchen Braun -- Woman and Labour in the transition from ape to man : women, work, and evolution in the works of Olive Schreiner / Daniel P. Shea -- Reworking professionalism : women doctors in Creamer and Phelps / Kelly Ross -- Nature, Domestic Labor, and Moral Community in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours and Elinor Wyllys / Richard M. Magee -- "Work and Wait" : Louisa May Alcott's female artists / Erin Hendel -- Mixing business with pleasure : the figure of the "Business Girl" in Sinclair Lewis's The Job and Winston Churchill's The Dwelling-Place of Light / Polina Kroik -- "To work is to be socially alive" : the failed promise of domestic service in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's What Diantha Did / Kellen H Graham -- The new (working) woman in Gilman's Herland / Melissa J. Strong -- To dance with "The Hired Girls" : love, labor, and longing in My Antonia / Nancy Von Rosk -- They worked hard for no money : women, labor, and working-class politics in the writing of Meridel Le Sueur / Amy Brady -- Harvesting freedom : women, work, and liberation in J. California Cooper's Family and Octavia Butler's Kindred / Ferents Lafargue -- Women in the public : society women in Edith Wharton's Fiction / Li-Wen Chang -- "Following the fashion" : women, work, and class construction in East Lynne -- Annarose Fitzgerald -- Conduct becoming a 1930s heroine : middle-class ideology and the "strategic self" / Katherine Rogers-Carpenter -- The battle of the bell(e)s : the sweet labor of working through it with bell hooks / Marie-Antoinette Smith.

ISBN

9781443824224
1443824224

LCCN

2010671717
100547400

OCLC

ocn707960855
707960855
SCSB-14659278

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Princeton University Library