Imaging American Women : : Idea and Ideals in Cultural History / / Martha Banta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Banta, Martha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (844 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Object, Image, Type, and the Conduct of Life --; Part I: Contexts --; Images of Identity --; Images of Desire --; Counterimages --; Part Two: Demonstrations --; Portraits in Private --; Between the Private and the Public --; Public Statements --; Images for Sale --; Epilogue: Looking Back --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Picture Credits --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231884136; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/bant91520
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martha Banta.

Examines the images of women -- both visual and verbal -- that came into being in the United States between the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and the close of World War I and explores both how and why those representations were made in such abundance.