The Clubwomen's Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940

ISBN-13: 9780815335375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 176 str.

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Opis

The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to World War II. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditional male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female co-operation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the centre of societies debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Braving “Sarcasm and Sneers”; Chapter 2 “The Power to Set Things Going”; Chapter 3 “Impersonating Their Citizen Brothers”; Chapter 4 Four Girls at Cottage City; Chapter 5 “Mama! Come An’ See the Suffragists!”; Chapter 6 The Secret of the Girl Sleuth; Chapter 7 Epilogue;

O autorze

Jerome Nadelhalft University of Maine, Gwen Athene Tarbox