Women, Compulsion, Modernity
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1800s
19th century
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agency
america
american
Author_Jennifer L. Fleissner
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charlotte perkins gilman
classroom
consumerism
contemporary
english major
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era
feminism
frank norris
freedom
historical
history
industrialization
literary analysis
literature
mary wilkins freeman
modern
naturalism
naturalist
rights
stephen crane
textbook
time period
united states
usa
womens issues
Product details
- ISBN 9780226253091
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2004
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The 1890s have long been thought one of the most male-oriented eras in American history. But in reading such writers as Frank Norris with Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Stephen Crane, Jennifer L. Fleissner boldly argues that feminist claims in fact shaped the period's cultural mainstream. ?Women, Compulsion, Modernity? reopens a moment when the young American woman embodied both the promise and threat of a modernizing world. Fleissner shows that this era's expanding opportunities for women were inseparable from the same modern developments--industrialization, consumerism--typically believed to constrain human freedom. With ?Women, Compulsion, and Modernity?, Fleissner creates a new language for the strange way the writings of the time both broaden and question individual agency.
