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Summary:

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The literature of modern American domesticity
• Delegating domesticity: white women writers and the new American housekeepers
• Dialoging domesticity: resisting and assimilating "The American lady" in early Mexican American women's writing
• Regulating domesticity: Carlisle School's publications and children's books for "American princesses"
• Practicing domesticity: from domestic outing programs to sovereign domesticity
• Epilogue. Fashioning femininity: "Types of American girls"; "Types of Indian girls"; and the "Wrong kind of [Mexican] woman"
• Appendix.

Author/Creator:

Zink, Amanda J. (Amanda Jane), 1977- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fictions of Western American domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850-1950 [by Zink, A.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Fictions of Western American domesticity [by Zink, A.J.] (First edition; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018 — ISBN 9780826359186; LCCN 2017027176)

Subjects:

Women and literature — West (U.S.) — History

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Racism in literature

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature

Housewives in literature

Housekeeping in literature

American literature — Women authors — History and criticism

American literature — 19th century — History and criticism

American literature — 20th century — History and criticism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS152 .Z56 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780826359193 (electronic book)
0826359191 (electronic book)
9780826359186 (printed case, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017041994

OCLC Numbers:

1002693186

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5344807 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15114100