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- catalog abstract ""The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural "masculinized" women and dangerous "female sexual inverts."" "Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular press, Laura L. Behling explicates the literary, artistic, and rhetorical strategies used to eliminate the "sexually inverted" woman: punishing her by imprisonment or death; "rescuing" her into heterosexuality; subverting her through parody; or removing her from society to some remote or mystical place. Behling also shows how fictional same-sex relationships in the writings of Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Stein, and others conformed to and ultimately reaffirmed heterosexual models." "The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 demonstrates that the woman suffrage movement did not so much suggest alternatives to women's gender and sexual behavior as it offered men and women afraid of perceived changes a tangible movement on which to blame their fears. A biting commentary on the insubstantial but powerful ghosts stirred up by the media, this study shows how, though legally enfranchised, the "new woman" was systematically disenfranchised socially through scientific theory, popular press illustrations, and fictional predictions of impending sociobiological disaster."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12027358.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular press, Laura L. Behling explicates the literary, artistic, and rhetorical strategies used to eliminate the "sexually inverted" woman: punishing her by imprisonment or death; "rescuing" her into heterosexuality; subverting her through parody; or removing her from society to some remote or mystical place. Behling also shows how fictional same-sex relationships in the writings of Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Stein, and others conformed to and ultimately reaffirmed heterosexual models."".
- catalog description ""The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 demonstrates that the woman suffrage movement did not so much suggest alternatives to women's gender and sexual behavior as it offered men and women afraid of perceived changes a tangible movement on which to blame their fears. A biting commentary on the insubstantial but powerful ghosts stirred up by the media, this study shows how, though legally enfranchised, the "new woman" was systematically disenfranchised socially through scientific theory, popular press illustrations, and fictional predictions of impending sociobiological disaster."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural "masculinized" women and dangerous "female sexual inverts.""".
- catalog description "Altered states : envisioning the masculine woman -- Unsightly evidence : female inversion and the U.S. woman suffrage movement -- Aberrant assumptions : disenfranchising the most aggravated type -- Enticing acts : the sexuality of seduction -- Marketing mockery : original sins and the art of parody -- Distant relations : put out of town for gettin' too int'mate -- Mundus reversus : femininity found.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.".
- catalog extent "215 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252026276 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.42/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1236.5.U6 B45 2001".
- catalog subject "Lesbianism United States History.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity United States History.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sex differences History.".
- catalog subject "Sex differences United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women Suffrage United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature History.".
- catalog subject "Women in popular culture History.".
- catalog subject "Women's rights United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Altered states : envisioning the masculine woman -- Unsightly evidence : female inversion and the U.S. woman suffrage movement -- Aberrant assumptions : disenfranchising the most aggravated type -- Enticing acts : the sexuality of seduction -- Marketing mockery : original sins and the art of parody -- Distant relations : put out of town for gettin' too int'mate -- Mundus reversus : femininity found.".
- catalog title "The masculine woman in America, 1890-1935 / Laura L. Behling.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".