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(Per)Forming Female Politics: The Making of the `Modern Woman'
dc.contributor.advisor | Bailey, Victor | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Schofield, Ann | |
dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Christine Aliisa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-08T22:28:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-08T22:28:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-01-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10060 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4535 | |
dc.description.abstract | As more middle-class women began to participate in the public life of London more frequently between 1890 and 1914, middle-class women's identity shifted from the "Angel-in-the-House" to the "New Woman" to the "Angel-in-the-City," and to ultimately the "Modern Woman." This dissertation explores these stages of transition and contemporaries' reactions as middle-class women redefined themselves within the modern city. I argue that their experiences working and living within the cultural milieu of London shaped a modern femininity that incorporated a political consciousness and forming a gendered and political identity. Female suffragists attempted to re-imagine Britain's public, social, political and cultural institutions as middle-class, woman-centered and feminist spaces, and the Actresses' Franchise League succeeded in creating this space in the design of the Woman's Theatre in 1913. | |
dc.format.extent | 352 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Europe--history | |
dc.subject | Women's studies | |
dc.subject | Theater | |
dc.subject | Actress | |
dc.subject | Britain | |
dc.subject | Femininity | |
dc.subject | Modernity | |
dc.subject | Performance | |
dc.subject | Politics | |
dc.title | (Per)Forming Female Politics: The Making of the `Modern Woman' | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Vicente, Marta V. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Elliott, Dorice | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Fischer, Iris | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | History | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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