No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader

Kaplan, Carla

doi:10.1215/00029831-77-4-856

American Literature

2005

DOI: 10.1215/00029831-77-4-856

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No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader

Carla Kaplan¹

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“…7 For a comprehensive critical deconstruction of the essentialist mythos of gendered "separate spheres," seeDavidson and Hatcher 2002. …”

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Domesticity at War: Bringing the War Home in Martha Rosler's "House Beautiful" Wartime Photomontages

Kaplan

2023

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The uneven, sometimes violent relationship between “here” and “elsewhere” is evoked powerfully in Martha Rosler’s House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home—two linked sets of photomontages that engage the gender and racial politics of domesticity in the US as well as the geopolitics of empire. Troubling mythologies of warfare and documentary realism with dazzling wit and critical fury, these works refer materially and specifically to places and times of war in solidarity with protest movements while also raising questions of historical linkages and political accountability. Suturing their times and spaces into discontinuous contact, the two series bring together seemingly incommensurate elements—exquisite domestic interiors, glamorous consumer commodities often associated with conventional femininity, and the landscapes and bodies damaged and destroyed by warfare--to produce images of great immediacy and visceral power. Across the long arc of the wars waged by the US from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, Rosler has shown us how the modernist aestheticization of US domesticity in the affluent post-World War II era promised personal empowerment and hopeful futures yet, emerging from warfare itself, only brought about more war.

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Domesticity at War: Bringing the War Home in Martha Rosler's "House Beautiful" Wartime Photomontages

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“Assuming the privilege” of bridging divides: Abigail Fowler-Chumos, practical phrenology, and America’s Gilded Age.

Lilleleht¹

2015

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Nineteenth-century phrenology is often presented as a failed or pseudoscience. Based on erroneous anatomical assumptions and indirect observation, phrenology as such offers historians of psychology an object lesson in what scientists ought not do (e.g., Boring, 1929). As a practical profession, however, phrenology presents a more complicated narrative. This is particularly true in the United States where in the hands of practitioners including and influenced by the Fowler family, phrenology maintained a cultural presence long after being rejected by the scientific and medical mainstream (Janik, 2014). The prevalence of women practitioners, whose work and lives have yet to be adequately explored, represents another complication. Abigail Ayers Doe Fowler-Chumos, third wife of America's "great gun of phrenology" Orson Squire Fowler, is one practitioner worthy of closer examination (Davies, 1955, p. 46). Using the separate spheres concept (Kerber, 1988) and newspaper announcements, articles, and advertisements spanning the 1870s to 1920s, this article explores Abigail Ayers Doe Fowler-Chumos' development as a practical phrenologist. Her story suggests much about the unrecognized capacity of practical phrenology to create concepts and practices of selfhood capable of moving women beyond the private and domestic, while also preparing all Americans for modern psychology.

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How Publics Matter: A Handbook for Alternative World-Making

Blaustein¹

2004

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No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader

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Domesticity at War: Bringing the War Home in Martha Rosler's "House Beautiful" Wartime Photomontages

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“Assuming the privilege” of bridging divides: Abigail Fowler-Chumos, practical phrenology, and America’s Gilded Age.

How Publics Matter: A Handbook for Alternative World-Making

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