Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I: Definition the New Woman in he Periodical Press
Part II: Women's Suffrage and Political Participation
Part III: Temperance, Social Purity, and Maternalism
Part IV: The Women's Club Movement and Women's Education
Part V: Work and the Labor Movement
Part VI: World War I and Its Aftermath
Part VII: Prohibition and Sexuality
Part VIII: Consumer Culture, Leisure Culture, and Technology
Part IX: Evolution, Birth Control, and Eugenics

Notes
Index

About the Author

Martha H. Patterson is an associate professor of English at McKendree University in Illinois and the author of Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915.

Reviews

Martha Patterson is the right person for this project. I see a bright future for this book in undergraduate and graduate courses--from American literature and history to media and women's studies.
*University of Delaware*

Martha Patterson is the right person for this project. I see a bright future for this book in undergraduate and graduate courses--from American literature and history to media and women's studies.
*University of Delaware*

[This] collection presents varied manifestations of an icon that 'worked to define American identity' during a dynamic era. Recommended
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