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Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

Stange, Margit

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0801872545
ISBN13: 9780801872549
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jan 1 2003
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

In Personal Property, Margit Stange analyzes white slavery literature in relation to other key American writings of the time by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Jane Addams, and Kate Chopin. The anthropological theory of the exchange of women developed by nineteenth-century anthropologists--in whose view, as Thorstein Veblen put it, woman is the original private property--informs white slavery depictions of racialized, enslaved female bodies. Similarly, Stange argues, this theory is reflected in literature, in journalism, and in the feminist and Progressivist reform rhetoric of the early twentieth century, when social relations were transformed by capitalist expansion. She explores Progressive Era nativist and anti-business reactions, anxieties about the seductive pull of consumerism, the social housekeeping movement, and women's struggle for identity and professional stature in the U.S. marketplace economy of the early twentieth century.

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