{"product_id":"modern-women-modern-work-domesticity-professionalism-and-american-writing-189-195-hardback-9780812237436","title":"Modern Women, Modern Work; Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 189-195 (Hardback) 9780812237436","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModern Women, Modern Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDomesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 189-195\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrancesca Sawaya (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812237436\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.484 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian \"cult of domesticity\" and the modern \"culture of professionalism\" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e Sawaya challenges our long-standing histories of modern professional work by elucidating the multiple ways domestic discourse framed professional culture. Modernist views of professionalism typically told a racialized story of a historical break between the primitive, feminine, and domestic work of the Victorian past and the modern, masculine, professional expertise of the present. \u003ci\u003eModern Women, Modern Work\u003c\/i\u003e historicizes this discourse about the primitive labor of women and racial others and demonstrates how it has been adopted uncritically in contemporary accounts of professionalism, modernism, and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e Seeking to recuperate black and white women's contestations of the modern professions, Sawaya pairs selected novels with a broad range of nonfiction writings to show how differing narratives about the transition to modernity authorized women's professionalism in a variety of fields. Among the figures considered are Jane Addams, Ruth Benedict, Willa Cather, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Ida Tarbell. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, \u003ci\u003eModern Women, Modern Work\u003c\/i\u003e boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Going Over to the Standard\": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555707482392,"sku":"9780812237436","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modern-women-modern-work-domesticity-professionalism-and-american-writing-189-195-hardback-9780812237436","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}