Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915

by Martha H. Patterson

Book Overview

Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls" as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson explores how writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Margaret Murray Washington, Sui Sin Far, Mary Johnston, Edith...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252030176
• ISBN13: 9780252030178
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years