Before They Could Vote

American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819a 1919

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency.

• ISBN: 9780299220549
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2006
• Größe: 227 x 160 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Herausgegeben von: Sidonie A Smith, Julia Watson