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03417aam a2200385 i 4500 001 492871901BE411EA82BF083097128E48 003 SILO 005 20191211010111 008 190201t20192019miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018053131 020 $a 047213129X 020 $a 9780472131297 035 $a (OCoLC)1055263696 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a HD6072.2.U5 $b M38 2019 100 1 $a Mattis, Ann, $d 1954- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83185025 245 10 $a Dirty work : $b domestic service in progressive-era women's fiction / $c Ann Mattis. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 238 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Class : culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index. 520 $a "Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women's magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. Domestic service brought together women from different classes, races, and ethnicities, and with it, a degree of social anxiety as upwardly mobile young women struggled to construct their identities in a changing world. The book focuses on the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Anzia Yezierska, and Fannie Hurst and their various depictions of the maid/mistress relationship, revealing "a feminized and racialized brand of class hegemony."Initiate Another SILO Locator Search
Not only did modern servants become configured as racial, hygienic, and social threats to the emergent ideal of the nuclear family, they played critical rhetorical roles in first-wave feminism and the New Negro movements. Dirty Work argues that these racial and class conflicts fundamentally shaped modern American domesticity, femininity, and fiction by female authors of the period. Deploying a materialist feminist and new modernist approach, and examining a diverse archive of modern American texts, including home economics pamphlets, undercover journalism, autobiography, reform tracts, training manuals, experimental modernism, and gothic fiction, Mattis reveals how U.S. domestic service was the political unconscious of cultural narratives that attempted to define modern domesticity and progressive femininity in monolithic terms"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women household employees $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Progressivism in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107325 650 7 $a Progressivism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896088 650 7 $a Women household employees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734125 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mattis, Ann, 1954- author. $t Dirty work $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019 $z 9780472125074 $w (DLC) 2019007091 830 0 $a Class, culture. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007034824 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021712.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=492871901BE411EA82BF083097128E48