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- The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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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 1920s, 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.
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-25
- Part 1: Defining the New Woman in the Periodical Press
- “The New Woman,” Ouida
- pp. 35-42
- “The Campaign Girl,” Kate Masterson
- pp. 43-45
- “Here Is the New Woman”
- pp. 46-48
- “Bloomers at the Bar”
- pp. 49-51
- “The New-Woman Santa Claus”
- pp. 52-53
- “Woman in Another New Role”
- pp. 60-61
- “Bicycle Number”
- pp. 78-79
- “The Flapper,” H.L. Mencken
- pp. 84-86
- “The New Negro Woman”
- pp. 87-88
- “A Bit of Life,” Russell
- pp. 89-90
- Part II: Women’s Suffrage and Political Participation
- “In the Public Eye”
- pp. 103-104
- “Movie of a Woman on Election Day”
- pp. 114-116
- Part III: Temperance, Social Purity, and Maternalism
- “At Home with the Editor,” Edward Bok
- pp. 129-131
- “The New Woman,” Rev. Ella E. Bartlett
- pp. 132-134
- “The New Woman,” Lillian W. Betts
- pp. 135-136
- “Miss Willard on the ‘New Woman’ ”
- pp. 137-139
- “The New Woman,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- pp. 145-146
- Part IV: The Women’s Club Movement and Women’s Education
- “A Girl’s College Life,” Lavinia Hart
- pp. 160-163
- “The Modern Indian Girl”
- pp. 172-175
- “The Sacrifice”
- pp. 177-178
- “Professional Training”
- p. 179
- Part V: Work and the Labor Movement
- “The New Woman”
- pp. 183-184
- “Debemos Trabajar” [We Must Work], Astrea
- pp. 188-189
- “New Jobs for New Women,” Virginia Roderick
- pp. 190-192
- “A New Woman?” Dorothy Weil
- pp. 193-199
- “Pin-Money Slaves,” Poppy Cannon
- pp. 203-209
- Part VI: World War I and Its Aftermath
- Cover of Hearst’s Magazine
- pp. 213-214
- Part VII: Prohibition and Sexuality
- “What Shall We Do with Jazz?” Martha Lee
- pp. 227-232
- “Sweet Sexteen,” John Held Jr.
- pp. 236-237
- Part VIII: Consumer Culture, Leisure Culture, and Technology
- “The Eternal Feminine,” Jas. H. Collins
- pp. 249-252
- “Battle Ax Plug”
- pp. 253-254
- “The Athletic Woman,” Anna de Koven
- pp. 255-257
- “The Woman’s Magazine,” Jeannette Eaton
- pp. 267-268
- “Famous Bobbed-Hair Beauties”
- pp. 269-271
- “From Ping Pong to Pants”
- pp. 272-273
- “Daughters of the Sky,” Vera L. Connolly
- pp. 274-276
- Part IX: Evolution, Birth Control, and Eugenics
- “The New Woman Monkey” and “Evolution”
- pp. 287-289
- About the Editor
- p. 341
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813544946
Related ISBN(s)
9780813542959
MARC Record
OCLC
276269634
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No