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Book SynopsisTeresa Mangum directs the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, USA, and is author of Ma
rried, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel.
Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire, Edited by Teresa Mangum Introduction The Life Cycle: Women and the Life-Cycle, c.1800-1920, Pat Thane, University of London, UK Bodies & Sexuality: Sexuality and Bodies in the Age of Empire, Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Women and Wandering Jews after Daniel Deronda, Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Medicine & Disease: Women and Medicine in the Age of Empire, Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida, USA Public & Private: The Fault Lines Between Public and Private Selves in Women's Autobiographical Writings, Linda Peterson, Yale University, USA Education & Work: Women and the Education Acts, Florence Boos, University of Iowa, USA Power: Memsahibs, Manners, and Empires, Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa, USA Artistic Representation: Travel Narrative and the Construction of Female Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century, Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
