Francesca J. Sawaya teaches English at the University of Oklahoma.

• Introduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern ProfessionalismChapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne JewettChapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACWChapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George SantayanaChapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa CatherChapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale HurstonAfterwordNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism." (Choice)

Francesca J. Sawaya teaches English at the University of Oklahoma.

• Introduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern ProfessionalismChapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne JewettChapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACWChapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George SantayanaChapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa CatherChapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale HurstonAfterwordNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism." (Choice)

Francesca J. Sawaya teaches English at the University of Oklahoma.

• Introduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern ProfessionalismChapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne JewettChapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACWChapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George SantayanaChapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa CatherChapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale HurstonAfterwordNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism." (Choice)