{"product_id":"modern-women-modern-work-9780812237436","title":"Modern Women Modern Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity\" and the modern \"culture of professionalism\" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Going Over to the Standard\": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405711090007,"sku":"9780812237436","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812237436.jpg?v=1730493363","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-women-modern-work-9780812237436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}