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Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America

Alison Piepmeier

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Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public,

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OL8467550W

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HistoryWomenPublic opinionHuman bodyWomen in popular cultureSymbolic aspects of Human bodySocial aspects of Human bodyPhysiologyHuman body, social aspectsWomen, united states, historyPublic opinion, united statesSocial aspectsSymbolic aspects

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