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The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 - Laura J. Behling
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- ISBN
- 9780252026270
- EAN
- 9780252026270
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252026276
ISBN-13
9780252026270
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1753219
Product Key Features
Book Title
Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Subjects & Themes / Women, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Civil Rights, Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
00-009894
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"As Behling documents, between 1890 and 1935 popular images of women strongly suggested that in demanding the right to vote and to participate fully in social and political life in the US, women risked losing their female identities in both mind and body. The author focuses on popular fiction, especially that published in magazines, to show how both male and female authors expressed anxiety, suspicion, and dislike of women who crossed gender barriers. . . . She contends that the widespread anxiety expressed throughout US culture during the period found its way into almost all fiction and testifies to the marginalization, mistrust, and downright fear of women's determination to construct new individual and collective identities." -- ChoiceADVANCE PRAISE"A richly textured and convincing reading of the suffragistmovement's definitive place in the cultural imagination, The Masculine Woman illuminates a critical juncture in gender negotiations. Behling's well-conceived study discerns suggestive intersections between medical writings, suffragist caricatures in popular magazines, and a range of narratives."-- Bruce Mills, author of Cultural Reformations: Lydia Maria Child and the Literature of Reform"Laura Behling's illuminating study of the social construction of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sexuality and gender in the United States combines bold analysis with exacting research. This intellectually nuanced and beautifully written book makes an important contribution to literary and social history as well as to gender theory."- Wendy Martin, author of An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich"Laura Behling's impressive study of the masculine woman illuminates many of the cultural anxieties that mark the formation of modern American culture. In her detailed and perceptive exploration of a wide range of popular texts, Behling provides important and intriguing insights into the ways in which our culture has confronted changing ideas of gender and sexuality."-- Alfred Bendixen, California State University, Los Angeles
Dewey Decimal
305.42/0973
Synopsis
The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural "masculinized" women and dangerous "female sexual inverts." Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular press, Laura L. Behling explicates the literary, artistic, and rhetorical strategies used to eliminate the "sexually inverted" woman: punishing her by imprisonment or death; "rescuing" her into heterosexuality; subverting her through parody; or removing her from society to some remote or mystical place. Behling also shows how fictional same-sex relationships in the writings of Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Stein, and others conformed to and ultimately reaffirmed heterosexual models. The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 demonstrates that the women's suffrage movement did not so much suggest alternatives to women's gender and sexual behavior as it offered men and women afraid of perceived changes a tangible movement on which to blame their fears. A biting commentary on the insubstantial but powerful ghosts stirred up by the media, this study shows how, though legally enfranchised, the new woman was systematically disfranchised socially through scientific theory, popular press illustrations, and fictional predictions of impending sociobiological disaster., The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural ''masculinized'' women and dangerous ''female sexual inverts.''Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular ......, The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural ''masculinized'' women and dangerous ''female sexual inverts.''Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular press, Laura L. Behling explicates the literary, artistic, and rhetorical strategies used to eliminate the ''sexually inverted'' woman: punishing her by imprisonment or death; ''rescuing'' her into heterosexuality; subverting her through parody; or removing her from society to some remote or mystical place. Behling also shows how fictional same-sex relationships in the writings of Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Stein, and others conformed to and ultimately reaffirmed heterosexual models.The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 demonstrates that the women's suffrage movement did not so much suggest alternatives to women's gender and sexual behavior as it offered men and women afraid of perceived changes a tangible movement on which to blame their fears. A biting commentary on the insubstantial but powerful ghosts stirred up by the media, this study shows how, though legally enfranchised, the new woman was systematically disfranchised socially through scientific theory, popular press illustrations, and fictional predictions of impending sociobiological disaster.
LC Classification Number
HQ1236.5.U6B45 2001
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