Image of Images of Women in 20th-Century American Literature and Culture : Female emancipation and changing gender roles in The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Sex and the City

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Images of Women in 20th-Century American Literature and Culture : Female emancipation and changing gender roles in The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Sex and the City

What do The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Sex and the City have in common? Strong women ahead of their time! Being part of New York’s middle and upper class, Ellen Olenska, Holly Golightly and Carrie Bradshaw & Co. cherish their otherness and strive for personal freedom and gender equality, thereby trying to combine traditional longings and modern beliefs. However, though situated in different decades of the last century, several obstacles are put in their ways because of their independent and self-confident lifestyles which, eventually, cannot all be overcome. From True Womanhood to the “feminine mystique” to the vast array of new gained liberties and life choices at the end of the last millennium, Janina Corda examines the developing images of women and their depiction in the literature and culture of America’s 20th century.

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Call Number
810.9005 COR i
Publisher
Gerrnany : Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag.,
Collation
119 p.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783828836808
Classification
810.9005
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Subject(s)
Women in literature
Popular literature
American literature
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