Francesca Sawaya: 1 book
Modern Women, Modern Work
Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism"...
