'Find their place and fall in line': the revisioning of women's work in 'Herland' and 'Emma McChesney & Co..s'

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Herland,' and Edna Ferber's 'Emma McChesney & Co.,' both published in 1915, challenged the dominant cultural assumptions about women's work in conventional frameworks. The two novelists portray nontraditional pictures of women, where they are independent and not restricted to household chores. The journal 'Outlook,' which was supposed to be progressive, also projected a view of women as cooks and housewives. Both Gilman and Ferber demonstrate that women writers did not need to surrender literary texts or literary careers to the demands of the market.

United States, Evaluation, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1915 AD, Ferber, Edna

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Gender training: male ambitions, domestic duties, and failure in the magazine fiction of T.S. Arthur

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The author discusses the 19th century magazine fiction of T.S. Arthur. Topics include the influence of the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent recession on Arthur's depiction of sex roles in the home and of urban merchant society.

History, Periodicals, Criticism and interpretation, Sex role, Domestic relations, Family relations, Arthur, T.S.

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Women's place in travel texts

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Analysis, Bibliography, Women travelers, Travel in literature, Travel literature

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