The American New Woman Revisited : : A Reader, 1894-1930 / / ed. by Martha H. Patterson.

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• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Harriet,; Adams, John H.,; Anna, Frau,; Astrea,,; Bartlett, Ella E.,; Benson, Elizabeth,; Betances Jaeger, Clotilde,; Betts, Lillian W.,; Bok, Edward,; Cady Stanton, Elizabeth,; Cannon, Poppy,; Collins, Frederick L.,; Collins, Jas. H.,; Connolly, Vera L.,; Eaton, Jeannette,; Edison, Thomas A.,; Far, Sui Seen,; Finck, Henry T.,; Gibson, Charles Dana,; Goldman, Emma,; Grand, Sarah,; Hall, G. Stanley,; Hart, Lavinia,; Held, John,; Henry, Josephine K.,; Hollingworth, Leta S.,; Hopkins, Pauline E.,; Johnson McDougald, Elise,; Kemble, Edward,; Koven, Anna de,; Lee Howard, William,; Lee, Martha,; Magruder, Julia,; Masterson, Kate,; Mencken, H. L.,; Misch, Caesar,; Ouida,,; O’Farrill, Alberto,; Parham, Saydee E.,; Perkins Gilman, Charlotte,; Radford Warren, Maude,; Roderick, Virginia,; Roosevelt, Theodore,; Rowland, Helen,; Russell,,; Smith Daggy, Augustus,; Tayleur, Eleanor,; Ulica, Jorge,; Washington, Booker T.,; Weil, Dorothy,; Winston, Ella W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Patterson, Martha H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
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In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920s, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces. Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman’s prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Defining the New Woman in the Periodical Press -- “The New Aspect of the Woman Question”, North American Review (1894) -- “The New Woman,”North American Review (1894) -- “The Campaign Girl,”Washington Post (1894) -- “Here Is the New Woman,”New York World (1895) -- “Bloomers at the Bar,”National Police Gazette (1895) -- “The New-Woman Santa Claus,” Judge (1895) -- “The New Negro Woman,” Lend a Hand (1895) -- “Woman in Another New Role,”Munsey’s Magazine (1896) -- “The New Woman,” reprinted in Free Society: A Periodical of Anarchist Thought, Work, and Literature (1898) -- “Women in the Territories,”New York Times (1903) -- “The ‘New Woman’ Got the Drop on Him,” Los Angeles Times (1895) -- “The Negro Woman—Social and Moral Decadence,” Outlook (1904) -- “Bicycle Number,” Judge (1898) -- “Ise Gwine ter Give You Gals What Straddle,” Life (1899) -- “St.Valentine’s Number,” Life (1903) -- “The Flapper,” Smart Set (1915) -- “The New Negro Woman,”Messenger (1923) -- “A Bit of Life,”New York Age (1919) -- PART II. Women’s Suffrage and Political Participation -- “The New Woman of the New South,” Arena (1895) -- “Foibles of the New Woman,” Forum (1896) -- “In the Public Eye,”Munsey’s Magazine (1897) -- “Suffragette [to the Bearded Lady]: How Do You Manage It?” Life (1911) -- “Women’s Rights: and the Duties of Both Men and Women,” Outlook (1912) -- “Movie of a Woman on Election Day,” Baltimore Afro-American (1920) -- “Squaws Demand ‘Rights,’ ”Washington Post (1921) -- “The New Woman: What She Wanted and What She Got,”Woman’s Home Companion (1929) -- “La Mujer Nueva” [The New Woman], Gráfico (1929) -- PART III. Temperance, Social Purity, and Maternalism -- “At Home with the Editor,” Ladies’ Home Journal (1894) -- “The New Woman,” American Jewess (1895) -- “The New Woman,” Outlook (1895) -- “Miss Willard on the ‘New Woman,’ ”Woman’s Signal (1896) -- “The Chinese Woman in America,” Land of Sunshine (1897) -- “The New Woman,” Woman’s Standard (1901) -- “The New Womanhood,” Forerunner (1910) -- “Alte und Neue Frauen” [Of Old and New Women], New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1917) -- PART IV. The Women’s Club Movement and Women’s Education -- “Women’s Department,” Colored American Magazine (1900) -- “A Girl’s College Life,” Cosmopolitan (1901) -- “The Typical Woman of the New South,” Harper’s Bazar (1900) -- “Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman,” Voice of the Negro (1904) -- “The Modern Indian Girl,” Indian Craftsman (1909) -- “Lo! The New Indian.Mohawk Belle,” Los Angeles Express (1903) -- “The Sacrifice,” Chicago Defender (1916) -- “Professional Training,” College Humor (1923) -- PART V. Work and the Labor Movement -- “The New Woman,”National Labor Tribune (1897) -- “The New Woman and Her Ways: The Woman Farmer,” Saturday Evening Post (1910) -- “Debemos Trabajar” [We Must Work], La Crónica (1911) -- “New Jobs for New Women,” Everybody’s Magazine (1914) -- “A New Woman?”Masses (1916) -- “The Negro Woman Teacher and the Negro Student,”Messenger (1923) -- “Pin-Money Slaves,” Forum and Century (1930) -- PART VI. World War I and Its Aftermath -- Cover of Hearst’s Magazine (1918) -- “A Farewell Letter to the Kaiser from Every Woman,”Washington Post (1918) -- “The New America, the American Jewish Woman: A Symposium,” American Hebrew (1919) -- “What the Newest New Woman Is,” Ladies’ Home Journal (1920) -- PART VII. Prohibition and Sexuality -- “What Shall We Do with Jazz?” Atlanta Constitution (1922) -- “Exodo de Una Flapper” [Exodus of a Flapper], Hispano América (1925) -- “Sweet Sexteen,” Life (1926) -- “The ‘Outrageous’ Younger Set: A Young Girl Attempts to Explain Some of the Forces That Brought It into Being,” Vanity Fair (1927) -- “Fumando Espero” [Smoking I Wait], Gráfico (1927) -- PART VIII. Consumer Culture, Leisure Culture, and Technology -- “The Eternal Feminine,” Printers’ Ink (1901) -- “Battle Ax Plug,” Santa Fe New Mexican (1896) -- “The Athletic Woman,” Good Housekeeping (1912) -- “The Woman of the Future,” Good Housekeeping (1912) -- “The Woman’s Magazine,” Masses (1915) -- “Famous Bobbed-Hair Beauties,”Negro World (1924) -- “From Ping Pong to Pants,” Photoplay (1927) -- “Daughters of the Sky,” Delineator (1929) -- PART IX. Evolution, Birth Control, and Eugenics -- “Effeminate Men and Masculine Women,”New York Medical Journal (1900) -- “The Evolution of Sex in Mind,” Independent (1901) -- “The New Woman Monkey,” Life (1906); and “Evolution,” Life (1913) -- “Flapper Americana Novissima,” Atlantic Monthly (1922) -- “The New Woman: In the Political World She Is the Source of All Reform Legislation and the One Power That Is Humanizing the World,” Negro World (1924) -- “The New Woman in the Making,” Current History (1927) -- “La Mujer Nueva” [The New Woman], Gráfico (1929) -- Notes -- Index -- About the Editor