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CHALLENGING SEPARATE SPHERES KARTONIERT (TB)

This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated  interrogated  and challenged
the gender ideology of separate spheres through their advocacy and representations of female
Bildung. The term Bildung encompasses an individual's entire moral  spiritual  behavioral 
emotional  political and intellectual development. The contributors analyze works of fiction 
memoirs  autobiographies  letters  the periodical press  and conduct and cookbooks from the
mid-1700s to circa 1900 that confront the separate spheres paradigm and promote women's
educational and personal development. They examine women's writing and reading practices  moral
and gender philosophies  political activism  and work from the home to the stage and factory.
Most writers did not repudiate outright existing gender models  but both subtly and overtly
subverted and reinterpreted them. In all the texts  the process of female education leads to an
assertion of agency. The writers came from different social classes and professional
backgrounds  ranging from noblewomen to working-class autobiographers of the later nineteenth
century. This volume will be of interest to German cultural  literary  and historical scholars
as well as to those concerned with the development of European feminism  women's education and
autobiography.

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