Out in public : configurations of women's bodies in nineteenth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Piepmeier, Alison
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Human body > Symbolic aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Women > United States > Physiology. Women > United States > History > 19th century. Women > United States > Public opinion. Women in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century. Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:

The most thrilling sensations : Anna Cora Mowatt and sensational womanhood
Woman goes forth to battle with Goliath : Mary Baker Eddy, medical science, and sentimental invalidism
As strong as any man : Sojourner Truth's tall-tale embodiment
The supreme right of American citizenship : Ida B. Wells, the lynch narrative, and the production of the American body
We have hardly had time to mend our pen : Sarah Hale, Godey's lady's book, and the body as print.