Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920
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Ann Gere (Author)
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Winner of the 1995 University of Illinois Press-National Women's Studies
Association manuscript prize
Women's clubs at the turn of the century were numerous, dedicated to
a number of issues, and crossed class, religious, and racial lines. Emphasizing
the intimacy engendered by shared reading and writing in these groups,
Anne Ruggles Gere contends that these literacy practices meant that club
members took an active part in reinventing the nation during a period
of major change. Gere uses archival material that documents club members'
perspectives and activities around such issues as Americanization, womanhood,
peace, consumerism, benevolence, taste, and literature--and offers a rare
depth of insight into the interests and lives of American women from the
fin de siecle through the beginning of the roaring twenties.
Intimate Practices is unique in its exploration of a range of
women's clubs--Mormon, Jewish, white middle-class, African American, and
working class--and paints a vast and colorful multicultural, multifaceted
canvas of these widely-divergent women's groups. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
More Details
- Contributor: Ann Gere
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252066047
- Number of Pages: 384
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 513
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 1997-04-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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