How to make it as a woman collective biographical history from Victoria to the present /
| Main Author: | Booth, Alison. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Women in culture and society.
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| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-387) and index. Self-help history: presenting models of womanhood -- Heads turn, heads roll: heroic types from Judith to Clara Barton -- How to minister as a woman: the likes of Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, Dorothea Dix, and Three Mrs. Judsons -- The lessons of the Medusa: Anna Jameson and mutual multibiography -- The World's Fair Women; or, racial progress in the nineteenth century -- Writing women's lives, revisited: Virginia Woolf and the missing canons of biography -- Our queen Victoria: feminist prosopography. |
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-387) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0226065456 9780226065458 0226065464 9780226065465 |