Becoming visible
women's presence in late nineteenth-century America
Gedrukt boek
Description of new kinds of appearances of women throughout American society, such as women's occupation of geographic space, their new patterns of employment, their advocacy of working-class or ethnic rights, or their literary or cultural engagement with their milieux. Women such as Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Jane Addams, Rebecca Harding Davis, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott and Kate Douglas Wiggin come under consideration in the light of these changes.