Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century america
Auteur :
Brown, Gillian
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520080997
Date de publication :
30 sept. 1992
Poids :
363 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.