WOMEN AND WORK by Christine Leiren Mower (Editor), Susanne Weil (Editor) ( 9781443824224 )

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Title:

WOMEN AND WORK
THE LABORS OF SELF-FASHIONING

By:

Christine Leiren Mower (Editor), Susanne Weil (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1443824224

ISBN 13:

9781443824224

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 November, 2010

Edition:

Unabridged edition

Pages:

390

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Synopsis:

While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy. The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women-where "work" is defined broadly to encompass not only paid labor inside and outside the home, but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity. How did nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers revise then-contemporary social assumptions about who should be performing work, and for what purpose? How fully did these writers perceive the class implications of their arguments for taking jobs outside the home?How does work, both inside and outside the home, contribute to female identity and, conversely, how does it promote what legal theorist Kenji Yoshino terms the demands of "covering"-women's strategic use of stereotypes of femininity and masculinity to succeed in the marketplace? In articles appropriate for both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in literature and literary history, women's studies, feminist and gender studies, contributors engage these questions, covering both canonical and popular "middlebrow" nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers such as Gilman, Cather, Alcott, Schreiner, Wharton, Le Sueur, Gissing, Wood, Lewis and Mitchell. Women and Work will also interest scholars concerned with this developing discourse.

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