This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by SCHWARTZ, A. E. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

STREET GIRL: 1900

The following dramatic scenes were taken from a full-length play that was inspired by my reading of The Mamie Papers (Rosen and Davidson 1977). This remarkable collection of letters written to Fanny Quincy Howe (1870-1933), a Boston aristocrat and woman of letters, chronicled the life and times of Mamie Pinzer. Mamie was a "working girl" in the fullest sense of the word. Her struggle to live with autonomy and dignity often placed her at odds with standards of decency preferred by a society that looked with suspicion upon those values in women, if they implied independence from male hegemony. The letters are unique in their detail and passion, as well as the proto-feminist consciousness that emerges through daily confrontation with patriarchy.

Gender & Society, Vol. 3, No. 4, 559-563 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/089124389003004013


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?