Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women

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No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “fema

Examines the lives of female social scientists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, their difficulties in gaining acceptance, and their pioneering s

This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated, interrogated, and challenged the gender ideology of separate spheres through their advocacy a