Title Women and work : the labors of self-fashioning / edited by Christine Leiren Mower and Susanne Weil

Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) : 1 illustration Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE -- PART I -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- PART II -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- PART III -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX Summary While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor pose problems of balance that continue to evade solution as women today face substantial shifts in the meanings and practices of marriage, work, and reproduction amid a globalized economy. The essays in Women and Work: The Labors of Self-Fashioning explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being wome .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-395) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women in literature. Work in literature. Sex role in literature. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century Labor in literature. Literature: history & criticism. Feminism & feminist theory. Gender studies: women. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Labor in literature American literature English literature Sex role in literature Women in literature Women -- Social conditions Work in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Mower, Christine Leiren. Weil, Susanne. ISBN 9781443824637 1443824631

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