Becoming Visible: Women S Presence in Late Nineteenth-Cen...
Floyd, Janet / Ellis, R. J. / Traub, Lindsey
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as they made new kinds of appearances throughout American society.
The essays show how, across the USA, it was fundamentally women who drove changes in their visibility forward, in group...