Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas

Preface
Introduction
The Negotiated Past
Part I: The Birth of a Series
Chapter one
Female Renown and the Politics of Commemoration
Chapter two
Girlhood as a Cultural Construct in Fictional Biographies
Part II: Noted Wives and Mothers
Chapter three
Fame by Association: The Gender Politics of First Ladies
Chapter Four
Matrimony, Domesticity, and the Cult of True Womanhood
Part III: Arranged Marriages and the Freedom of the Frontier
Chapter Five
Marriages of Convenience: Harried Housewives as Homesteaders
Chapter Six
Miscegenation and the Sexual Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples
Part IV: Braving Enemy Fire: She-Warriors in Masculine Spaces
Chapter Seven
"Filler Feminism" and Disputed Claims to Military Fame
Chapter eight
Civil War Heroines and "Vacillating Feminism"
Part V: The COFA Series Redux
Chapter nine
"Meddling" Quaker Reformers as Agents of Change
Chapter ten
Radical Transformation and Reactionary Resistance
Conclusion
Fame Is Fleeting: The National Women's Hall of Fame
Notes
Index

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20th Century America; First Ladies; Gender Politics; Women’s Studies; Childhood of Famous Americans; Children’s Literature; American Womanhood; Publishing; girlhood; cold war childhood; Children's Literature; American girlhood; gender and children's literature; Louisa May Alcott; book history