Becoming visible
Subtitle: women's presence in late nineteenth-century America
By: edited by Janet Floyd ... [et al.].
Series: DQR studies in literature -- 45; DQR studies in literature -- 45.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789042029774; 9789042029781
Subjects: Women; Congresses; History; Women in public life; Women and literature; Political activity; Social conditions
Notes: Papers from a colloquium, "Visible women: American Women and Public Space 1865-1910," held at King's College London in June 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Becoming visible   -- Alison Easton, R.J. Ellis, Janet Floyd, and Lindsey Traub -- Part I:; title: The changing geography of public and private :; title: Claiming visibility: women in public, public women in the United States, 1865-1910  -- Anne M. Boylan; title: Dangerous working-class women: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn  -- Janet Zandy; title: Visible women in the needle trades: revisiting the clothing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries  -- Margaret Walsh; title: Women's employment in the public and private spheres, 1880-1920  -- S.J. Kleinberg; title: "If Iola were a man": gender, Jim Crow and public protest in the work of Ida B. Wells  -- Mia Bay; title: "Outdoor relief": Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Adams Fields and the visit in gilded age America  -- Alison Easton -- Part II:; title: Stepping out: bodies, spaces and the cultural representation of visibility :; title: Negotiating visibility: Louisa May Alcott's narrative experiments  -- Lindsey Traub; title: "People will think you have struck an attitude": fashionable space in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins' novels  -- R.J. Ellis; title: "Magnificent equipment": body, sound and space in the representation of the female singer  -- Janet Floyd; title: The painful production of Verena Tarrant: John Locke and the Bostonians  -- Peter Rawlings; title: "The true American woman": Narcissa Owen's embodied national narrative  -- Karen L. Kilcup; title: American women travelers and the material feminine  -- Shirley Foster -- Part III:; title: Becoming "modern" :; title: Gendering modernity: Frances E. Willard's politics of technological sentimentality  -- Timothy A. Hickman; title: Women, anti-imperialism and America's Christian mission abroad: the impact of the Philippine-American War -- Susan K. Harris-- Notes on contributors-- Select bibliography.