American New Woman Revisited

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Definition the New Woman in he Periodical PressPart II: Women's Suffrage and Political ParticipationPart III: Temperance, Social Purity, and MaternalismPart IV: The Women's Club Movement and Women's EducationPart V: Work and the Labor MovementPart VI: World War I and Its AftermathPart VII: Prohibition and SexualityPart VIII: Consumer Culture, Leisure Culture, and TechnologyPart IX: Evolution, Birth Control, and EugenicsNotesIndex

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. - Ann Ardis (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. - Ann Ardis (University of Delaware) [This] collection presents varied manifestations of an icon that 'worked to define American identity' during a dynamic era. Recommended (Choice)