Imaging American Women : : Idea and Ideals in Cultural History / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 1987 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (844 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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