How Long to Read Modern Women, Modern Work

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Women, Modern Work?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 32 minutes to read Modern Women, Modern Work by Francesca Sawaya

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Sawaya challenges our long-standing histories of modern professional work by elucidating the multiple ways domestic discourse framed professional culture. Modernist views of professionalism typically told a racialized story of a historical break between the primitive, feminine, and domestic work of the Victorian past and the modern, masculine, professional expertise of the present. Modern Women, Modern Work historicizes this discourse about the primitive labor of women and racial others and demonstrates how it has been adopted uncritically in contemporary accounts of professionalism, modernism, and modernity. Seeking to recuperate black and white women's contestations of the modern professions, Sawaya pairs selected novels with a broad range of nonfiction writings to show how differing narratives about the transition to modernity authorized women's professionalism in a variety of fields. Among the figures considered are Jane Addams, Ruth Benedict, Willa Cather, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Ida Tarbell. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, Modern Women, Modern Work boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States.

How long is Modern Women, Modern Work?

Modern Women, Modern Work by Francesca Sawaya is 207 pages long, and a total of 53,199 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Women, Modern Work Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Modern Women, Modern Work aloud.

What Reading Level is Modern Women, Modern Work?

Modern Women, Modern Work is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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