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A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America
A New Heartland Women Modernity and the Agrarian Ideal in America
Author: Janet Galligani Casey
Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems of modernity? And how have they imbued the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195338959
ISBN-10: 0195338952
Publication Date: 4/16/2009
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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