No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader

Published by Duke University Press 2002

No More Separate Spheres!

A Next Wave American Studies Reader

Edited by: Cathy N. Davidson , Jessamyn Hatcher , Inderpal Grewal , Caren Kaplan and Robyn Wiegman

In the series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383437

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About this book

Argues against the use of male/female gender categories to characterize public and domestic life.

Author / Editor information

Cathy N. Davidson is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English at Duke University.

Jessamyn Hatcher is a faculty member in the General Studies Program at New York University.

Reviews

“This groundbreaking collection of essays by a group of extraordinary scholars and critics treats a wide range of key American writers and presents the most important arguments of the last twenty years on gender and sexuality and on class, race, and nationalism in American cultural expression. The book demonstrates clearly how far we have come, what we have learned, and what is at stake today in our reading, in the classroom, and in our lives. It asks, finally, if we will accept the continuation of separate spheres or if we will keep striving to resist them. A major achievement!”—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Cathy Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
PART 1: CANONS
Separate Spheres, FemaleWorlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History Linda Kerber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
‘‘My Sister! My Sister!’’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie Judith Fetterley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and theWritten Page Elizabeth Renker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Contradictory Impulses: María Ampara Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies José Aranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Sex, Class, and ‘‘Category Crisis’’: Reading Jewett’s Transitivity Marjorie Pryse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
PART 2: DOMESTICITY UNDONE: CASE STUDIES
Manifest Domesticity Amy Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Passing through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Contending Forces Siobhan Somerville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T.Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography Maurice Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres You-me Park and Gayle Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
PART 3: PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Poor Eliza Lauren Berlant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Representative/Democracy: Presidents, Democratic Management, and the Unfinished Business of Male Sentimentalism Dana Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Fathers, Sons, Sentimentality, and the Color Line: The Not-Quite-Separate Spheres of W. E. B. Du Bois and RalphWaldo Emerson Ryan Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
‘‘Few of Our Seeds Ever Came Up at All’’: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and theWork of Affect in Visionary Utopias Christopher Newfield and Melissa Solomon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 448

eBook

Published: May 10, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383437