All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womenhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
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Book Overview
Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820310638
ISBN13:9780820310633
Release Date:January 1989
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:298 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
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Fantastic read!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Professor Frances Cogan is my faculty advisor here at the University of Oregon, and the most incredible teacher I've ever had. I decided to pick up one of her books after I finished her Literature sequence. It's an excellent book, though definitely not for the vocabularily-challenged. It describes what young women's lives were like in the 19th century - everything from what women were supposed to be like physically, to what skills they should have, to dating and the "winnowing" process. Cogan draws upon various popular fictional works of the era, thoughts of prominent doctors of the time, and several different areas. Her rather acerbic wit came through nicely in this book, I was pleased to see. Don't mistake this for a light read, however. While not technical, this book is quite verbose. Not for the faint of heart.
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