Personal property
Margit Stange
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Personal property
Published
September 24, 2002
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages
184
ISBN-13
9780801872549
ISBN-10
0801872545
Description
Readers in the early twentieth century witnessed an explosion of lurid white slavery literature - stories and tracts proclaiming that, every year, thousands of young women were being abducted and sold into forced prostitution. Despite well-publicized findings that white slavery was a fabrication, revelations that (in the words of lawman and writer Clifford Roe) "most large cities are in fact market places where girls are sold and bought" soared to popularity in the years between 1909 and 1914, reaching a mass audience through magazines like McClure's and dozens of popular anthologies. In Personal Property, Margit Stange analyzes white slavery literature in relation to other key American writings of the time, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Jane Addams, and Kate Chopin. These works share a view of woman as at once domestic and public, the mainstay of the home and a form of circulating property endowed with the commodity value that fuels marketing and consumption. Personal Property explores the nativist and antibusiness anxieties of the Progressive Era, the fear that consumerism was corrupting maternal and wifely roles, the "social housekeeping" movement, and women's struggle for identity and professional stature in the U.S. marketplace economy of the early twentieth century.
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How many pages are in Personal property?
This edition of Personal property has approximately 184 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
How long does it take to read Personal property?
For most readers, Personal property typically takes between 3h 50m and 2h 33m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 46,000 words and common reading speeds.
Here's a detailed breakdown: • Continuous reading at 250 WPM: approximately 3h 4m of focused reading • Casual reading (30 minutes/day): you could finish in roughly 7 days • Estimated word count: 46,000 words
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What is the word count of Personal property?
The estimated word count for Personal property is approximately 46,000 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Personal property?
Personal property was written by Margit Stange.
When was Personal property published?
The publication date for this specific edition is September 24, 2002. The original work may have been published on a different date.