Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era
The dawn of the twentieth century saw the birth of the New Woman, a cultural and literary ideal that replaced Victorian expectations of domesticity with visions of social, political, and economic autonomy. Although such writers as Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin treated these ideals in well-known literature of that era, marginalized women also explored changing gender roles in works that deserve more attention today.\ This book...
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The dawn of the twentieth century saw the birth of the New Woman, a cultural and literary ideal that replaced Victorian expectations of domesticity with visions of social, political, and economic autonomy. This book is the first to focus solely on multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America. Rich reveals how these authors uniquely articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences of both public and private life in the Progressive era.
Introduction The New Woman and Progressive America 11 Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights 372 From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence 673 A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the Progressive New Woman 1034 "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : Maria Cristina Mean and American womanhood 1365 Escaping the "Torah-made world" : the fiction of Anzia Yezierska 157Conclusion 188Bibliography 201Index 223
