Beyond gender: Constructing women's middle-class subjectivity in the fiction of Wharton, Austin, Yezierska, and Hurston
This study argues the need to consider the impact of social class in women's narratives. Beginning with the turn of the century, a time of great social and economic change for women, I examine how women writers challenge and redefine traditional notions of middle-class womanhood in order to acc...
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Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737543 |