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With illustrations, this book explores the radical change that occured in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how the collapse of slavery in the US brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in the same way that it did for blacks.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Not at home: the nineteenth-century new woman
Homer's ambiguously new women
The manly new woman
Photography credits
Notes on the contributors
List of lenders
Trustees of the Newark Museum
Index

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 07/02/2006
      ISBN13: 9780813536972, 978-0813536972
      ISBN10: 0813536979
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With illustrations, this book explores the radical change that occured in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how the collapse of slavery in the US brought issues of subordination and autonomy to the surface for women in the same way that it did for blacks.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations
      Foreword
      Preface
      Not at home: the nineteenth-century new woman
      Homer's ambiguously new women
      The manly new woman
      Photography credits
      Notes on the contributors
      List of lenders
      Trustees of the Newark Museum
      Index

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