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- catalog abstract "This work examines the many popular representations of student life at women's colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era. In hundreds of college novels, newspaper accounts, popular periodical essays, and scientific treatises, the "college woman" was described and defined in a period when women's higher education was still socially suspect. These representations had a large impact on how the public perceived women's higher education, painting a picture of college life that must have seemed irresistible to young women. The public image of the college woman was transformed from that of a homely, sexless oddity, doomed to spinsterhood, to that of a vibrant, attractive, athletic young woman, who would eventually marry. While other scholars have argued that the Progressive Era was the "golden age" for women's single-sex education, pointing to the many positive depictions of the women's college student in the mass media, Dr. Inness suggests that these representations actually helped to perpetuate the status quo and did little to advance women's social rights. Adopting a theoretic stand informed by such cultural critics and historians as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Dr. Inness examines the representation of the college woman in this period, showing that representation not only described the college woman but also helped constitute her.".
- catalog contributor b9428355.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. Regulating, Watching, and Penalizing -- 2. Mashes, Smashes, Crushes, and Raves -- 3. It Is Pluck But Is It Sense? -- 4. The All-Around Girl, the Gibson Girl, and the New Woman -- 5. Poor Girls and Rich Girls -- 6. Re-envisioning the Maid.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-192) and index.".
- catalog description "This work examines the many popular representations of student life at women's colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era. In hundreds of college novels, newspaper accounts, popular periodical essays, and scientific treatises, the "college woman" was described and defined in a period when women's higher education was still socially suspect. These representations had a large impact on how the public perceived women's higher education, painting a picture of college life that must have seemed irresistible to young women. The public image of the college woman was transformed from that of a homely, sexless oddity, doomed to spinsterhood, to that of a vibrant, attractive, athletic young woman, who would eventually marry.".
- catalog description "While other scholars have argued that the Progressive Era was the "golden age" for women's single-sex education, pointing to the many positive depictions of the women's college student in the mass media, Dr. Inness suggests that these representations actually helped to perpetuate the status quo and did little to advance women's social rights. Adopting a theoretic stand informed by such cultural critics and historians as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Dr. Inness examines the representation of the college woman in this period, showing that representation not only described the college woman but also helped constitute her.".
- catalog extent "196 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Intimate communities.".
- catalog identifier "0879726830".
- catalog identifier "0879726849 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Intimate communities.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Intimate communities.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.409352042 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "College stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "College students in literature.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History.".
- catalog subject "PS374.U52 I56 1995".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women college students in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women's colleges in literature.".
- catalog subject "Young women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Regulating, Watching, and Penalizing -- 2. Mashes, Smashes, Crushes, and Raves -- 3. It Is Pluck But Is It Sense? -- 4. The All-Around Girl, the Gibson Girl, and the New Woman -- 5. Poor Girls and Rich Girls -- 6. Re-envisioning the Maid.".
- catalog title "Intimate communities : representation and social transformation in women's college fiction, 1895-1910 / Sherrie A. Inness.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".