| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895–1915. By Martha H. Patterson. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xii, 230 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-03017-6.)

Beyond the Gibson Girl purports to go where other studies of the "New Woman" have not gone before. Martha H. Patterson situates "her" variants within the following social, economic, aesthetic, and political discourses:

The growing demands of women's rights activists for new personal freedoms, social reforms, and political equality in conjunction with the increasing impact of evolutionary theory, incorporation, consumer culture, and electrification and other new technologies; realist, naturalist, regionalist, and modernist aesthetics; "new" immigrants, disaffected labor, Jim Crow, xenophobic legislation, and imperialist missions at home and abroad

in order to demonstrate how the New Woman is at once "a protest of, anodyne for, and an appeasement to the ideological imperatives of the dominant icon" (p. 3).

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