By Janet Galligani Casey
Modernity and urbanity have lengthy been thought of collectively maintaining forces in early twentieth-century the United States. yet has the dominance of the city imaginary obscured the significance of the agricultural? How have girls, particularly, appropriated discourses and photographs of rurality to interrogate the issues of modernity? and the way have they imbued the rural-traditionally considered as a locus for conservatism-with a innovative political valence?
Touching on such different topics as eugenics, reproductive rights, ads, the economic system of literary prizes, and the position of the digicam, A New Heartland demonstrates the significance of rurality to the ingenious development of modernism/modernity; it additionally asserts that ladies, as items of scrutiny in addition to brokers of critique, had a distinct stake in that relation.
Casey lines the beliefs informing America's belief of the agricultural throughout a large box of representational domain names, together with social idea, periodical literature, cultural feedback, images, and, so much in particular, women's rural fiction ("low" in addition to "high"). Her argument is knowledgeable by means of archival learn, such a lot crucially via a cautious research of The Farmer's Wife, the only nationally allotted farm magazine for girls and a bit recognized repository of rural American attitudes. via this vast scope, A New Heartland articulates another mode of modernism by means of not easy orthodox principles approximately gender and geography in twentieth-century America.
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