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Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's ''Gibson Girls'' as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson ......
Challenging monolithic images of the New Woman as white, well-educated, and politically progressive, this study focuses on important regional, ethnic, and sociopolitical differences in the use of the New Woman trope at the turn of the twentieth century. Using Charles Dana Gibson's ''Gibson Girls'' as a point of departure, Martha H. Patterson ......
''Carefully documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. He confirms all the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters . . . the traditional racism of the American ring. . . . No one, reading Sammons, can doubt that it is ......
Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or ''White Negroes,'' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In ''Beyond the White Negro,'' Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial ......
Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or ''White Negroes,'' who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. In ''Beyond the White Negro,'' Kimberly Chabot Davis claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial ......
There are politics, politicians, and scandals, but only in Chicago can any combination of these spark the kind of fireworks they do. And no other American city has had a mayor like William Hale ''Big Bill'' Thompson, not in any of his political incarnations.A brilliant chameleon of a politician, Thompson could move from pro- to anti-prohibition, ......
Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland
Paranoia and the fight against women's equality
The mid-seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the ......
Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland
Paranoia and the fight against women's equality
The mid-seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the ......
This first balanced picture of circus king John Ringling North explored the remarkable career of the man who ran Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily for thirty years. David Lewis Hammarstrom details how North guided the circus through adversities ranging from depressions and wars to crippling labor strikes and rapidly changing trends in American ......
