Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier

Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America

Alison Piepmeier

296 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public,...

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