Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884 - Hardcover

Hoffert, Sylvia D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807828815 ISBN 13: 9780807828816

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice.As the owner and editor of newspapers in Pittsburgh; St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Washington, D.C.; and as one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male-dominated world of commerce, journalism, and politics. How she accomplished this feat; what expressive devices she used; what social, economic, and political tensions resulted from her efforts; and how those tensions were resolved are the central questions examined in this biography. Sylvia Hoffert arranges the book topically, rather than chronologically, to include Swisshelm in the broader i

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"A beautifully written and carefully constructed biography."-- Annals of Iowa

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In this biography, Hoffert shows how Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884), a feminist, abolitionist, journalist, and newspaper editor, was an unconventionally ambitious woman who publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0807828815
• ISBN 13: 9780807828816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272