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Simonsen, Jane. "Making Home Work: Race, Gender, and the Uses of American Domestic Space, 1850-1920," American Studies, University of Iowa, May 2001.
This dissertation describes transformations in the link between domestic sentiment and new institutional and architectural forms, and the relation of these forms to ongoing debates about women’s property rights between 1848 and 1920. I have tapped largely unexamined sources, including Midwestern sentimental novels, an Iowa women’s rights journal, photographs of Nez Perce allotment, and the stories and illustrations of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) artist Angel Decora Dietz. I argue that the various literary, artistic, and architectural guises that domesticity assumed, and the racialized and gendered property allotments it legitimated, emerged in response to local conditions as well as national imperatives. Likewise, new ideas that flourished in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries moved domesticity into decidedly new cultural territory, as the women I study here helped to remake home from an emblem of “separate spheres,” into an icon of “civilization,” and then into a set of rituals understood through new ideas of cultural relativism.
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