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  title info:
    title: Dirty work
    sub title: domestic service in progressive-era women's fiction
  name:
    name part: Mattis, Ann
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (221 pages).
  abstract: Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women's magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. Domestic service brought together women from different classes, races, and ethnicities, and with it, a degree of social anxiety as upwardly mobile young women struggled to construct their identities in a changing world. The book focuses on the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Anzia Yezierska, and Fannie Hurst and their various depictions of the maid/mistress relationship, revealing "a feminized and racialized brand of class hegemony." Not only did modern servants become configured as racial, hygienic, and social threats to the emergent ideal of the nuclear family, they played critical rhetorical roles in first-wave feminism and the New Negro movements. Dirty Work argues that these racial and class conflicts fundamentally shaped modern American domesticity, femininity, and fiction by female authors of the period. Deploying a materialist feminist and new modernist approach, and examining a diverse archive of modern American texts, including home economics pamphlets, undercover journalism, autobiography, reform tracts, training manuals, experimental modernism, and gothic fiction, Mattis reveals how U.S. domestic service was the political unconscious of cultural narratives that attempted to define modern domesticity and progressive femininity in monolithic terms.
  note: Ann Mattis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-221) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Household employees in literature
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Women household employees
    topic: In literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: African American women household employees
    topic: In literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS 173 .D65
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Class : culture
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Class, culture
  identifier: 9780472131297
  identifier: 9780472125074
  identifier: 0472125079
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 181126
    record change date: 20221129150712.5
    record identifier: in00004606237
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng