Davidson / Hatcher / Grewal No More Separate Spheres!

A Next Wave American Studies Reader
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8343-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Argues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Cathy N.

Hatcher, Jessamyn

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction / Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher

Part 1: Canons

Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History / Linda K. Kerber

“My Sister! My Sister!”: The Rhetoric of Catherine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie / Judith Fetterley

Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and the Written Page / Elizabeth Renker

Contradictory Impulses: Maria Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies / Jose F. Aranda Jr.

Sex, Class, and “Category Crisis”: Reading Jewett’s Transitivity / Marjorie Pryse

Part 2: Domesticity Undone: Case Studies

Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan

Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces / Siobhan Somerville

Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace

Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres / You-me Park and Gayle Wald

Part 3: Public Sentiment

Poor Eliza / Lauren Berlant

Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism / Dana D. Nelson

Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W. E. B. Du Bois and Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ryan Schneider

“Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All”: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the Work of Affect in Visionary Utopias / Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cathy N. Davidson is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English at Duke University.Jessamyn Hatcher is a faculty member in the General Studies Program at New York University.