The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and by Barbara Antoniazzi

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By Barbara Antoniazzi

The Wayward Woman takes a clean examine the revolutionary period, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant experiences of woman delinquency, prostitution literature, and revolutionary womanhood, this paintings is aware “female waywardness” because the severe intersection among the increase of woman emancipation and the panic encouraged through the period’s obsession with sexual enslavement. simultaneously, it explores the innovative ambivalence approximately compassion and regulate which spread out along a warfare on prostitution that traversed the nation-states of legislations, drugs, literature and politics. Drawing on theories of performativity the writer develops “the wayward girl” as a capacious analytical type that encompasses all girls who, countering the residual injunction of domesticity, introduced new varieties of femininity into the sunshine of the general public sphere: the activist, the pro and the divorcee, but in addition the feminine breadwinner, the charity lady and the city lady of color––among many others. The e-book investigates the continuum of waywardness that stretches from the high-minded New lady to the ever-victimized “white slave” as a cultural battlefield the place a variety of girls stepped around the barriers of sophistication, race and respectability to assert new public personas. whilst it reads the preoccupation with white slavery either as a symptom of and an antidote to this wave of swap. via an innovating selection of assets which brings jointly sociological writings, novels, performs, videos and criminal records, the publication rearticulates the tensions of the revolutionary period among gender roles, blackness and whiteness, reformers and reformed, the electorate and the nation. The Wayward Woman could be of a lot curiosity to scholars and students within the fields of yankee stories, girls experiences and function studies.

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