ISBN:
9783653033595
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 S.)
Parallel Title:
Print version American Women in Cartoons 1890-1920
DDC:
306.0942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Literature on the American woman suffrage movement is plentiful, but no work has 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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2.3. Effects of figurative media on identity-formation3. 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
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4.3. Arguments for emancipation and their implications for a new self-understanding4.3.1. 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
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5.2.2. The emotional threat5.2.3. 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
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