Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance

by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study of etiquette texts, conduct literature, and advice books and films. GwendolynAudrey Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Bront?, Frances E. W. Harper, and Martha Stewart as well as such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons.

"Specifically," Foster notes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322870
• ISBN13: 9780809322879
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"