Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 “An Independent Little Sausage” : Sexual Agency and Desire On Dearborn Street
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'In the teeming public space of modern U.S. cities at the end of the long nineteenth century, New Women carved out a place for themselves and navigated the opportunities and constraints associated with love and vocation on the eve of war. I address these representations, and focus on sexual agency and desire through the lens of Australian feminist Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman novel, On Dearborn Street. I examine Franklin's portrayals of a nuanced and somewhat contradictory sexual self-determination influenced by her personal and political life in Chicago, and emphasise the ways the novel resists romance narratives by refusing the choice between marriage and independence.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Women's Writing vol. 28 no. 1 February 2021 21267939 2021 periodical issue 2021 pg. 59-74
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