Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America

by Alison Piepmeier

Book Overview

Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public, Alison Piepmeier focuses on women's bodies as a site for their public self-construction. Rather than relying on familiar binaries such as public/private and victim/agent, Piepmeier presents women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855693
• ISBN13: 9780807855690
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"