Spinster Tales and Womanly PossibilitiesSUNY Press, 1 de gen. 2002 - 186 pàgines Today, there are few traces of the spinster's existence - the options open to women have dramatically changed - but we continue to grapple with concerns about women's desires and "the future of the family.""--BOOK JACKET. |
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THE PERSISTENT SPINSTER | 3 |
BOSSED BY A WOMAN | 21 |
AN EMANCIPATED WOMAN | 33 |
SHE HAS DELIBERATELY SHUT THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY | 55 |
A DEBATABLE FIGURE | 73 |
A LADY SCHOLAR? | 91 |
SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL | 109 |
HOLLYWOOD STARS | 127 |
AN IDEAL WOMAN | 147 |
NOTES | 157 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 173 |
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Pàgina 1 - The research for this chapter was supported by a Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by faculty research grants from Swarthmore College.
Pàgina 1 - Seneca, is an associate professor in the American Studies Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World (2000).
Pàgina 174 - Woman Is Born to Love: The Maiden Aunt as Maternal Figure in Ante-Bellum Literature...
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America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines Gail Collins Previsualització no disponible - 2003 |