Modern Women, Modern Work
Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950

Francesca Sawaya

2003 | 208 pages | Cloth $49.95
Literature | Women's/Gender Studies

Table of Contents

Introduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism

Chapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett

Chapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW

Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana

Chapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather

Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index