Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism -- 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett -- 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW -- 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana -- 4. "Going over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather -- 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.