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Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of 19th century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. This text focuses on women's bodies as a site for their public self-construction.Piepmeier, Alison is the author of 'Out in Public Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America', published 2004 under ISBN 9780807829042 and ISBN 0807829048.
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