Intimate practices : literacy and cultural work in U.S. women's clubs, 1880-1920 /

Intimate practices : literacy and cultural work in U.S. women's clubs, 1880-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gere, Anne Ruggles, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Women > United States > Societies and clubs > History.
Women > United States > Intellectual life.
Women > United States > Books and reading > History.
Self-culture > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Literacy and intimacy
  • Constructing and contesting Americanization(s)
  • Valuing and devaluing dollars
  • Fashioning American womanhood(s)
  • (Re)calibrating culture
  • (Un)professional reading and writing
  • Images and public memory.