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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800

By: Ruth Heidi Bloch

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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800

By: Ruth Heidi Bloch

Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years.

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Univ of California Press

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0520936477

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Three Radical Women Writers

Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst

By: Nora Ruth Roberts

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Three Radical Women Writers

Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst

By: Nora Ruth Roberts

Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach that encompasses the social vision and feminist practice of the writers and places them in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. The study covers their lives from the turn of the century to the 1970s, with an emphasis on the 1930s; examines their views of the Cold War; links the three to the Progressive tradition; and analyzes their key literary works. Resources for analysis include historical and contemporary theory; excerpts from the radical press of the 1920s and 1930s; and primary materials from the writers themselves, including journals, notes, and unpublished archival materials.

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Routledge

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1135023344

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Respectability and Deviance

Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation

By: Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres

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Respectability and Deviance

Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation

By: Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres

The first major study in English of 19th-century German women writers, this book examines their social and cultural milieu along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing. The author demonstrates that these writings provide an extensive and informative look at an exciting and transformative epoch that so much shaped our own. 16 photos.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226400662

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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800

By: Ruth Heidi Bloch

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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800

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Three Radical Women Writers

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Respectability and Deviance

Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800

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