VI: The 19th Century (& beyond) -- “Woman” and “the feminine”
Previous images of “woman” in American culture
Women and American art -- early 1800s
“Woman” as object in male world
White woman as object in an “ethnic” world
Making house: immigrant female domestics
The houses they made: 19th-Century domestic architecture
Sisterhood is Powerful: Suffragism, Seneca Falls, & Women’s Writing
Clothes & the woman: Seneca Falls wear c.1852
“Gilded Age” Aesthetics
Disrupting the field: “woman” & the Aesthetics
Influence from France: Edouard Manet’s Olympia (1863) Pohl p.279
New (male-created) visions of “woman”
“Woman” as difference
More than the “angel of the house”
“Woman” as domestic object
“Woman” redefined by women : Self-made “new” women
Not the same old “mother”
Jump ahead: “woman” in the 20th-century
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“Women Emerging” themes, terms, concepts, artists
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