American Women in Cartoons 1890-1920 : Female Representation and the Changing Concepts of Femininity during the American Woman Suffrage Movement An empirical analysis.
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American Women in Cartoons 1890-1920 : Female Representation and the Changing Concepts of Femininity during the American Woman Suffrage Movement An empirical analysis.
Yazar:
Hundhammer, Katharina.
ISBN:
9783653033595
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1 online resource (227 pages)
Seri:
Münchner Studien zur neueren und neuesten Geschichte
İçerik:
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- a) Hypotheses, methodology and sources -- b) Scientific contextualization, state of research and literature -- 1. Understanding the American woman suffrage movement -- 1.1. Social theory: feminist enhancements of Habermas, Foucault and the importance of being visible -- 1.2. Establishing a counterpublic: the woman's movement and its strategies of persuasion -- 2. The editorial cartoon as a means of political persuasion and social change -- 2.1. Historical tradition of political cartoons in the USA -- 2.2. Techniques of argumentation in cartoons -- 2.3. Effects of figurative media on identity-formation -- 3. Female representation in visual media and cartoons in the nineteenth century -- 3.1. Representation of predominant concepts of femininity in visual media -- 3.2. The Gibson Girl as the first liberating role model in cartoon form -- 3.3. Representation of suffragistsin cartoons since 1850 -- 4. A new concept of femininity -women's self understanding in cartoons of the suffrage movement 1910 - 1920 -- 4.1. Female self-representation as a novelty: the cartoonists Lou Rogers and Nina Allender -- 4.2. The forum for positive female depictions -- 4.3. Arguments for emancipation and their implications for a new self-understanding -- 4.3.1. Women's merit - as a worker, as a mother ,as the socially engaged and as the morally superior -- 4.3.2. Economic necessity -- 4.3.3. Ideological foundations - revolutionary and republican principles, true democracy and humanist justice -- 4.3.4. Deconstruction of the concept of "separate spheres" inconsistency, women's competence and constructed inferiority -- 5. Reactions of the general press -- 5.1. The single journal's approaches -- 5.2. Preserving the status quo -- 5.2.1. The sexual defamation -- 5.2.2. The emotional threat.
5.2.3. The notion of incompetence -- 5.3. The gradual change of the ideal -- 5.4. The diffusion of a new concept of femininity -- 6. The effect of the cartoons -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations.
Özet:
Literature on the American woman suffrage movement is plentiful, but no work has systematically analyzed the visual aspect in the quest for woman suffrage. This publication fills this gap. Taking mid 19th century representations of women as a basis, it analyses political cartoons in three major woman's journals between 1910 and 1920 and distills the visual representation of women in the counterpublic sphere of the woman partisan press. The portrayal of women in political cartoons of three general interest journals during the same time period simultaneously helps to trace sociocultural changes in the general concept of femininity in early 20th century USA. Women's claim for suffrage not only asked for a political right. At the same time, the gender concepts of the day were being negotiated in a highly charged public discourse, in which the visual medium of the cartoon served as a particularly effective means of emotional persuasion. This book will appeal to students of Social History, Gender Studies and Media Studies as well as to the general interest reader.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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