Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History

by Martha Banta

Hardcover, 1987

Status

Available

Genres

Publication

Columbia Univ Pr (1987), Hardcover, 844 pages

Description

Examines the images of women -- both visual and verbal -- that came into being in the United States between the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and the close of World War I and explores both how and why those representations were made in such abundance.

Subjects

Language

English

Physical description

844 p.; 7 x 2.25 inches

ISBN

0231061269 / 9780231061261

Local notes

oversize

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