Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-century America

by Alison Piepmeier (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

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  Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of 19th-century womanhood. Alison Piepmeier focuses on women's bodies as a site for their public self-construction,and presents women's public embodiment as multiple, transitional, strategic, playful, and contested.