{"product_id":"modern-women-modern-work-francesca-sawaya-9780812237436","title":"Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 189-195","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian \"cult of domesticity\" and the modern \"culture of professionalism\" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSawaya challenges our long-standing histories of modern professional work by elucidating the multiple ways domestic discourse framed professional culture. Modernist views of professionalism typically told a racialized story of a historical break between the primitive, feminine, and domestic work of the Victorian past and the modern, masculine, professional expertise of the present. \u003ci\u003eModern Women, Modern Work\u003c\/i\u003e historicizes this discourse about the primitive labor of women and racial others and demonstrates how it has been adopted uncritically in contemporary accounts of professionalism, modernism, and modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeeking to recuperate black and white women's contestations of the modern professions, Sawaya pairs selected novels with a broad range of nonfiction writings to show how differing narratives about the transition to modernity authorized women's professionalism in a variety of fields. Among the figures considered are Jane Addams, Ruth Benedict, Willa Cather, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Ida Tarbell. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, \u003ci\u003eModern Women, Modern Work\u003c\/i\u003e boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Sawaya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812237439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812237436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.42w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2004 pg. 1883","brand":"Francesca Sawaya","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926358950143,"sku":"9780812237436","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d8ba64b1-dc29-432b-8eb4-3096a9bab3ac.jpg?v=1681082635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-women-modern-work-francesca-sawaya-9780812237436","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}