Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Defining the New Woman in the Periodical Press; "The New Aspect of the Woman Question," Sarah Grand; "The New Woman," Ouida; "The Campaign Girl," Kate Masterson; "Here Is the New Woman"; "Bloomers at the Bar"; "The New-Woman Santa Claus"; "The New Negro Woman," Mrs. Booker T. Washington; "Woman in Another New Role"; "The New Woman": An Address by Emma Goldman before the Liberal Progressive Society

"Women in the Territories: Some of Their Achievements in Fields of Energy Generally Filled By Men-Typical Examples, Including a Mining Speculator and a Cowboy""The 'New Woman' Got the Drop on Him"; "The Negro Woman-Social and Moral Decadence," Eleanor Tayleur; "Bicycle Number"; "Ise Gwine ter Give You Gals What Straddle," Edward Kemble; "St. Valentine's Number," Charles Dana Gibson; "The Flapper," H.L. Mencken; "The New Negro Woman"; "A Bit of Life," Russell; Part II: Women's Suffrage and Political Participation; "The New Woman of the New South," Josephine K. Henry

"Foibles of the New Woman," Ella W.Winston"In the Public Eye"; "Suffragette [to the Bearded Lady]: How Do You Manage It?" Augustus Smith Daggy; "Women's Rights: and the Duties of Both Men and Women," Theodore Roosevelt; "Movie of a Woman on Election Day"; "Squaws Demand 'Rights': Penobscot Indian Women Want Vote: Privilege in Tribal Elections"; "The New Woman: What She Wanted and What She Got," Frederick L. Collins; "La Mujer Nueva" [The New Woman], Clotilde Betances Jaeger; Part III: Temperance, Social Purity, and Maternalism; "At Home with the Editor," Edward Bok

"The New Woman," Rev. Ella E. Bartlett"The New Woman," Lillian W. Betts; "Miss Willard on the 'New Woman' "; "The Chinese Woman in America," Sui Seen Far [Edith Eaton]; "The New Woman," Elizabeth Cady Stanton; "The New Womanhood," Charlotte Perkins Gilman; "Alte und Neue Frauen" [Of Old and New Women], Frau Anna; Part IV: The Women's Club Movement and Women's Education; "Women's Department," Edited by Pauline E. Hopkins; "A Girl's College Life," Lavinia Hart; "The Typical Woman of the New South," Julia Magruder

"Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman," John H. Adams Jr."The Modern Indian Girl"; "Lo! The New Indian. Mohawk Belle"; "The Sacrifice"; "Professional Training"; Part V: Work and the Labor Movement; "The New Woman"; "The New Woman and Her Ways: The Woman Farmer," Maude Radford Warren; "Debemos Trabajar" [We Must Work], Astrea; "New Jobs for New Women," Virginia Roderick; "A New Woman?" Dorothy Weil; "The Negro Woman Teacher and the Negro Student," Elise Johnson McDougald; "Pin-Money Slaves," Poppy Cannon; Part VI: World War I and Its Aftermath

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Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman's prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.

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