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Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Literature of Modern American Domesticity
  • Chapter One. Delegating Domesticity: White Women Writers and the New American Housekeepers
  • Chapter Two. Dialoging Domesticity: Resisting and Assimilating "The American Lady" in Early Mexican American Women's Writing
  • Chapter Three. Regulating Domesticity: Carlisle School's Publications and Children's Books for "American Princesses"
  • Chapter Four. Practicing Domesticity: From Domestic Outing Programs to Sovereign Domesticity
  • Epilogue. Fashioning Femininity: "Types of American Girls," "Types of Indian Girls," and the "Wrong Kind of (Mexican) Woman"
  • Appendix. Advertisements for and Reviews of Evelyn Hunt Raymond Novels
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico
      Publication Date: 6/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826363947, 978-0826363947
      ISBN10: 0826363946
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction. The Literature of Modern American Domesticity
      • Chapter One. Delegating Domesticity: White Women Writers and the New American Housekeepers
      • Chapter Two. Dialoging Domesticity: Resisting and Assimilating "The American Lady" in Early Mexican American Women's Writing
      • Chapter Three. Regulating Domesticity: Carlisle School's Publications and Children's Books for "American Princesses"
      • Chapter Four. Practicing Domesticity: From Domestic Outing Programs to Sovereign Domesticity
      • Epilogue. Fashioning Femininity: "Types of American Girls," "Types of Indian Girls," and the "Wrong Kind of (Mexican) Woman"
      • Appendix. Advertisements for and Reviews of Evelyn Hunt Raymond Novels
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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