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Index abolition, 15, 187 Aderholt, Orville F., 206n1 African American women: control over bodies, 16, 155–59, 167, 174, 179; discourses about motherhood, 12, 126, 149–50, 152–53, 155, 158–59, 193; discourses about womanhood, 12–13, 16–17, 38, 127; female lineage, 115–16, 120; marginalization of, 1, 19; and middle class, 12–13; negotiating sentimental conventions, 12–13, 15–17, 113, 151–53, 158–59. See also mothers agrarianism, 61 AIDS crisis, 200–201 American Communist Party. See Communist Party [American] American Dream, 19, 69, 79, 111 American Individualism, 21, 53. See also capitalism Andrews, William L., 13–14 Angelo, Bonnie, 184 Armstrong, Nancy, 94–95, 209n5 Astro, Richard, 92, 209n3 Austen, Jane, 60, 209n5; Pride and Prejudice, 60 Baldwin, James, 200–1; Giovanni’s Room, 200–201 Barnes, Elizabeth, 14, 203n3 Baskind, Samantha, 90 Baym, Nina, 8–9, 95–96, 209n5 Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann, 114, 132 Bell, Bernard W., 15–16 Bell, Michael, 204n5 Beloved. See under Morrison, Toni Bennett, Paula, 203n3 Berger, James, 159–60 Berlant, Lauren, 152–53, 203n3 bildungsroman, 26, 60, 64, 81 Black Book, The. See under Harris, Middleton black women. See African American women Blake, Fay M., 207n4 Boyd, Kyle, 190, 211n4 Briffault, Robert, 91–92, 94, 102, 209n3 Bristol, Horace, 89–91, 209n1 Brontë, Charlotte, 94, 209n5; Jane Eyre, 94 Brontë, Emily, 59, 94, 209n5; Wuthering Heights, 94 Brown, Cecil, 185 Brown, Gillian, 41, 203n3 Brown, William Wells, 205n8; Narrative of William W. Brown, 205n8 Butler, Octavia, 2, 127–46; connecting the present to the past, 17, 21–22, 184, 200; Kindred, 17, 21–22, 126, 127–46, 184, 200; showing when sympathy is lost Campbell, Patricia R., 207n4 Cantwell, Robert, 23, 60; The Land of Plenty, 60 228 / index Civil War, 30, 67, 112–15, 120, 189, 204n8; Civil War fiction, 112; Union army, 122 Clark, Suzanne, 204n5 Clemons, Walter, 175 Coiner, Constance, 24 Communist Party [American], 8–9, 11, 24, 26, 31, 206n1 Conroy, Jack, 60; The Disinherited, 60 Cook, Sylvia J., 207n4 Corber, Robert J., 200–201 Crash of 1929, 19, 63 Crouch, Stanley, 147–48, 150, 185, 212n6 Cullinan, Colleen Carpenter, 152 Cult of True Womanhood, 38 Culture of Sentiment, 3, 15, 209n5 Cummins, Maria Susanna, 203n2; Gertrude Flint [Gerty], 152; The Lamplighter, 117, 152, 203n2 Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR], 198 Davidson, Cathy N., 14, 203n3 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 25–26; Life in the Iron Mills, 25–26 Delany, Samuel R., 127 Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A., 151 DeMott, Robert, 107 Depression, The. See Great Depression, The DiChario, Nick, 130–31 Dickinson, Emily, 59 Dieng, Babacar, 114 Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, 37, 54 Dobson, Joanne, 4, 56 domestic fiction, 28, 94–95, 209n5 domestic labor, 51; child care, 25, 56, 149, 196, 207n5; housework, 25, 39, 49, 51, 56, 93, 102–3, 110; managing household resources, 40, 72–73, 93. See also caregiving domestic novel. See domestic fiction domestic sphere: challenging beliefs about home and safety, 33–38; and class, 9, 38; expanding, 10, 21, 29, 38–39, 51–52, 58, 87–110; and race, 38; and sentimental ideals, 28, 38–39, 95–96. See also family double consciousness, 159–60 Douglas, Ann, 6 Douglass, Frederick, 15, 133, 142, 206n10; Frederick Douglass’ Paper, 205; The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 206n10; My Bondage and My Freedom, capitalism: abuses or failures of, 8–9, 12, 21, 37, 39–40, 41, 53–54, 76–77; and the American Dream, 111; and belief in landownership, 37, 61, 65–68, 77; capitalist mythologies, 20, 37, 40–41, 62, 64–70, 76–77, 85–86, 96, 111, 208n8; critiques of, 53, 40, 60, 61–62, 76–77, 93, 110; cycle of failure, 33, 62, 208n8; dehumanization, 54; enforcing individualism, 40–41, 53–54, 91–93, 102; fracturing community, 36, 38, 50–51, 86; and gender, 25, 27, 40, 50–51, 61–62, 66–70, 70–76, 91, 93, 95–97, 110; and hard work, 32–33, 40–41, 48, 53, 62, 69, 111, 187–88; and race, 12–13, 28–29, 79–80 Carby, Hazel V., 205n10 caregiving, 1, 2, 21, 35, 39, 41, 110, 119, 166–67; activism as caregiving, 57; exercising agency through caregiving, 103–104, 109–10; extending sympathy through caregiving, 169; failure to meet caregiving ideals, 35, 50–51; group caretaking, 55, 88, 102, 178; male caregiving, 39, 49, 86, 87–111. See also domestic work Casey, Janet Galligani, 61 Center for American Progress, 190 Chapman, Abraham, 112 children: abuse of, 34–35, 66–67; death or...