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oapen-20.500.12657-242062024-03-22T19:23:19Z Keeping up Her Geography Kennedy, Tanya ann private binary womans building female subject van vorst store porch thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women’s urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow’s novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley. 2019-11-21 14:40:15 2020-04-01T09:49:53Z 2020-04-01T09:49:53Z 2007 book 1005925 OCN: 1135847836 9780415979498;9781138813946;9781135863333;9781135863326;9781135863289 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24206 eng Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1005925.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135863333 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9780203944493 10.4324/9780203944493 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780415979498;9781138813946;9781135863333;9781135863326;9781135863289 open access
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Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women’s urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow’s novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.
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