Staging Family: Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses Contributor(s): Mullenneaux, Nan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803284624 ISBN-13: 9780803284623 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Women's Studies - Biography & Autobiography |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017056790 |
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies |
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6" W x 9" (1.78 lbs) 450 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. |