1st Edition

Keeping up Her Geography Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

By Tanya Ann Kennedy Copyright 2007
160 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography , Tanya Ann Kenedy argues... Read more

Chapter I: Feminism and the Public/Private Divide

Chapter II: Journeys into Urban Interiors

Chapter III: The Secret Properties of Southern Regionalism

Chapter IV: Bitter Locations: Self-Representation, Gender, and Nation

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Biography

Tanya Ann Kennedy