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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Corda, Janine, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Marburg, [Germany] : Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag 2015
2016.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433341006719
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  • Cover ; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Common Background: Geography and Social Status; 2.1 A City of Hopes and Dreams: New York City; 2.2 Class-Differences in the US and Their Impact on Women; 3 Early Signs of Change: The Age of Innocence; 3.1 Historical Background: Women from Mid-19th-Century to 1920; 3.2 The Emergence of the New Woman in Old New York; 3.3 An Age of Innocence and its Cult of True Womanhood; 3.4 New-land in Old New York: Men and Their Perception of Women; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 The Changing Roles of Women in Post-War America: Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • 4.1 Historical Background: Women between the 1920s and 1960s4.2 Deviation from the Cultural Norm: The Modern Woman; 4.3 The Conventional Ideal of Proper Womanhood; 4.4 The Transitional Man and His View on Women; 4.5 Censored in Translation: From Novella to Movie; 4.6 Conclusion; 5 Women at the Turn of the Millennium: Sex and the City; 5.1 Historical Background: Women since the 1960s; 5.2 Living in an Age of Un-Innocence: Emancipated Female Lifestyle; 5.3 Facing a New Backlash?: Conservative Ideals and New Problems; 5.4 The Manifold Millennium Man and His Relation to Women
  • 5.5 Conclusion6 Conclusion; Bibliography