The New Woman in Print and Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography

201 Pages·2009·3.92 MB·English

by  Marianne Berger Woods

The New Woman
in Print and Pictures
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The New Woman
in Print and Pictures
An Annotated Bibliography
MARIANNE BERGER WOODS
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATA
Woods, Marianne Berger, 1941–
The new woman in print and pictures : an annotated
bibliography / Marianne Berger Woods.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7864-3624-8
softcover : 50# alkaline paper
1. Women—United States—History—Bibliography.
2. Feminism—United States—History—Bibliography.
3. Women’s rights—United States—History—Bibliography.
I. Title.
Z7964.U49W66 2009
[HQ1410]
016.30540973—dc22 2009006124
British Library cataloguing data are available
©2009 Marianne Berger Woods. All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
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without permission in writing from the publisher.
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To all contemporary and historic New Women
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C
ONTENTS
Preface
1
Introduction
5
PART I
PRIMARY WORKS, 1894–1938
19
PART II
SECONDARY WORKS, 1962–2008
97
Index
179
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REFACE
“Hindsight is 20/20” is a tried and true expression. Had I known eight
years ago what I know now, I probably would not have undertaken this enor-
mous project. Having said that, I’m not sorry that I did.
My reasons for persisting are many. First is my hope that this will be a
valuable aid to New Woman scholars. I developed an affinity for the New
Woman while perusing microfilm of historical Ohio newspapers. Though I
was not looking for her, the frequency with which her image appeared in the
mid-to-late 1890s newspapers aroused my curiosity in what later became my
orphan obsession.
Because I was too busy tending children to participate in the feminist
movement of the late 1970s, I regard this book as my penance—and my trib-
ute to the women who did march for abortion rights, for women’s rights, for
human rights. Without their showing me a different way and without my read-
ing of Herstory by June Sochen (1981), I would still be stuck in the kitchen
and laundry room. I earned a master’s degree and doctorate because I had role
models showing me what women could achieve.
A few words as to the methodology and philosophy for making choices
for this work: At the outset I included every book or article including “New
Woman” in its text, and I made a note of each book/essay identified by a
scholar as “New Woman,” without regard for date. Soon it was evident the
material is too vast for this kind of scrutiny.
So I eliminated critical reviews of New Woman books contemporary
with their publication—the plethora of material written in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries in regard to the reception of specific novels and
plays. I also excluded material strictly related to women’s suffrage and eugen-
ics, even those with “New Woman” in their titles. For secondary materials I
focus on more modern articles, essays, and book chapters—but only those with
titles including those words.
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