The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930

Published by Rutgers University Press 2008

The American New Woman Revisited

A Reader, 1894-1930

Edited by: Martha H. Patterson

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813544946

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About this book

In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920s, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces.

Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman’s prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.

Author / Editor information

Martha H. Patterson is an associate professor of English at McKendree University in Illinois and the author of Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915.

Reviews

Martha Patterson is the right person for this project. I see a bright future for this book in undergraduate and graduate courses--from American literature and history to media and women's studies.

— Ann Ardis, University of Delaware

Martha Patterson is the right person for this project. I see a bright future for this book in undergraduate and graduate courses--from American literature and history to media and women's studies.

— Ann Ardis, University of Delaware

[This] collection presents varied manifestations of an icon that 'worked to define American identity' during a dynamic era. Recommended

— Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Defining the New Woman in the Periodical Press
“The New Aspect of the Woman Question”, North American Review (1894) Sarah Grand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
“The New Woman,”North American Review (1894) Ouida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
“The Campaign Girl,”Washington Post (1894) Kate Masterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
“Here Is the New Woman,”New York World (1895) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
“Bloomers at the Bar,”National Police Gazette (1895) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
“The New-Woman Santa Claus,” Judge (1895) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
“The New Negro Woman,” Lend a Hand (1895) Booker T. Washington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
“Woman in Another New Role,”Munsey’s Magazine (1896) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
“The New Woman,” reprinted in Free Society: A Periodical of Anarchist Thought, Work, and Literature (1898) Emma Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
“Women in the Territories,”New York Times (1903) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
“The ‘New Woman’ Got the Drop on Him,” Los Angeles Times (1895) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
“The Negro Woman—Social and Moral Decadence,” Outlook (1904) Eleanor Tayleur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
“Bicycle Number,” Judge (1898) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
“Ise Gwine ter Give You Gals What Straddle,” Life (1899) Edward Kemble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
“St.Valentine’s Number,” Life (1903) Charles Dana Gibson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
“The Flapper,” Smart Set (1915) H. L. Mencken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
“The New Negro Woman,”Messenger (1923) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
“A Bit of Life,”New York Age (1919) Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
PART II. Women’s Suffrage and Political Participation
“The New Woman of the New South,” Arena (1895) Josephine K. Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
“Foibles of the New Woman,” Forum (1896) Ella W. Winston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
“In the Public Eye,”Munsey’s Magazine (1897) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
“Suffragette [to the Bearded Lady]: How Do You Manage It?” Life (1911) Augustus Smith Daggy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
“Women’s Rights: and the Duties of Both Men and Women,” Outlook (1912) Theodore Roosevelt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
“Movie of a Woman on Election Day,” Baltimore Afro-American (1920) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
“Squaws Demand ‘Rights,’ ”Washington Post (1921) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
“The New Woman: What She Wanted and What She Got,”Woman’s Home Companion (1929) Frederick L. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
“La Mujer Nueva” [The New Woman], Gráfico (1929) Clotilde Betances Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
PART III. Temperance, Social Purity, and Maternalism
“At Home with the Editor,” Ladies’ Home Journal (1894) Edward Bok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
“The New Woman,” American Jewess (1895) Ella E. Bartlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
“The New Woman,” Outlook (1895) Lillian W. Betts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
“Miss Willard on the ‘New Woman,’ ”Woman’s Signal (1896) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
“The Chinese Woman in America,” Land of Sunshine (1897) Sui Seen Far Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
“The New Woman,” Woman’s Standard (1901) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
“The New Womanhood,” Forerunner (1910) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
“Alte und Neue Frauen” [Of Old and New Women], New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1917) Frau Anna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PART IV. The Women’s Club Movement and Women’s Education
“Women’s Department,” Colored American Magazine (1900) Pauline E. Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
“A Girl’s College Life,” Cosmopolitan (1901) Lavinia Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
“The Typical Woman of the New South,” Harper’s Bazar (1900) Julia Magruder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
“Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman,” Voice of the Negro (1904) John H. Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
“The Modern Indian Girl,” Indian Craftsman (1909) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
“Lo! The New Indian.Mohawk Belle,” Los Angeles Express (1903) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
“The Sacrifice,” Chicago Defender (1916) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
“Professional Training,” College Humor (1923) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
PART V. Work and the Labor Movement
“The New Woman,”National Labor Tribune (1897) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
“The New Woman and Her Ways: The Woman Farmer,” Saturday Evening Post (1910) Maude Radford Warren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
“Debemos Trabajar” [We Must Work], La Crónica (1911) Astrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
“New Jobs for New Women,” Everybody’s Magazine (1914) Virginia Roderick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
“A New Woman?”Masses (1916) Dorothy Weil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
“The Negro Woman Teacher and the Negro Student,”Messenger (1923) Elise Johnson McDougald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
“Pin-Money Slaves,” Forum and Century (1930) Poppy Cannon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
PART VI. World War I and Its Aftermath
Cover of Hearst’s Magazine (1918) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
“A Farewell Letter to the Kaiser from Every Woman,”Washington Post (1918) Helen Rowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
“The New America, the American Jewish Woman: A Symposium,” American Hebrew (1919) Caesar Misch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
“What the Newest New Woman Is,” Ladies’ Home Journal (1920) Harriet Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
PART VII. Prohibition and Sexuality
“What Shall We Do with Jazz?” Atlanta Constitution (1922) Martha Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
“Exodo de Una Flapper” [Exodus of a Flapper], Hispano América (1925) Jorge Ulica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
“Sweet Sexteen,” Life (1926) John Held Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
“The ‘Outrageous’ Younger Set: A Young Girl Attempts to Explain Some of the Forces That Brought It into Being,” Vanity Fair (1927) Elizabeth Benson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
“Fumando Espero” [Smoking I Wait], Gráfico (1927) Alberto O’Farrill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
PART VIII. Consumer Culture, Leisure Culture, and Technology
“The Eternal Feminine,” Printers’ Ink (1901) Jas. H. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
“Battle Ax Plug,” Santa Fe New Mexican (1896) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
“The Athletic Woman,” Good Housekeeping (1912) Anna de Koven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
“The Woman of the Future,” Good Housekeeping (1912) Thomas A. Edison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
“The Woman’s Magazine,” Masses (1915) Jeannette Eaton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
“Famous Bobbed-Hair Beauties,”Negro World (1924) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
“From Ping Pong to Pants,” Photoplay (1927) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
“Daughters of the Sky,” Delineator (1929) Vera L. Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
PART IX. Evolution, Birth Control, and Eugenics
“Effeminate Men and Masculine Women,”New York Medical Journal (1900) William Lee Howard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
“The Evolution of Sex in Mind,” Independent (1901) Henry T. Finck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
“The New Woman Monkey,” Life (1906); and “Evolution,” Life (1913) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
“Flapper Americana Novissima,” Atlantic Monthly (1922) G. Stanley Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
“The New Woman: In the Political World She Is the Source of All Reform Legislation and the One Power That Is Humanizing the World,” Negro World (1924) Saydee E. Parham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
“The New Woman in the Making,” Current History (1927) Leta S. Hollingworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
“La Mujer Nueva” [The New Woman], Gráfico (1929) Clotilde Betances Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
About the Editor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Other: 25

eBook

Published: May 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780813544946