Good health, then, is a code, meaning: tomboy now, successful breeder of white children later. She is only laying the foundation for future good health.” Let her ride, drive, row, swim, run, climb fences, and even trees, if she has a mind to. An 1873 article stated that parents should “allow a girl to be as ‘tomboyish’ as her inclinations lead her to be. Good health, then, is a code, meaning: tomboy now, successful breeder of white children later.īut the ultimate femininity of frailty wasn’t much good for procreation, and the birthrate was declining among these white women. This ideology promoted the ideal of women sticking to the private sphere, tending to children and cultivating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. Middle-class white women, in their 25 pounds of restrictive bustles, corsets, and crinolines, were largely constrained by the gender roles of what was known as the “cult of true womanhood,” sometimes called the “cult of domesticity,” in the Victorian era. Nineteenth-century tomboyism was, in fact, connected to one of the white middle class’s great projects of the time: breeding the white race. But another idea about the benefits of tomboyism took hold, one which promoted the opposite conclusion: that tomboyism was good for the womb.
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A series of events lead Carrie and Hurstwood to New York City, where both struggle to live out the aspirations that brought them there. Months later her eye is turned by one of the salesmanâs acquaintances, George Hurstwood, and vice-versa. She soon takes up with a traveling salesman she met on the train into town. Living with her sister and brother-in-law, she quickly finds that life, and work, are hard in the big city. Â 33 in the Modern Libraryâs 100 Best NovelsĬaroline Meeber, known as Sister Carrie to her family, moves to Chicago at the tender age of eighteen to try to make something of herself. Â 33 in the Guardianâs Best 100 Novels in English (2015) Standard Ebooksġ59,188 words (9 hours 39 minutes) with a reading ease of 75.5 (fairly easy) Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. TimeStar, a futuristic superhero, then emerges from a portal in the sky and lunges at Flux, launching a madcap struggle between good and evil and the cousins’ quest to unfreeze time. When Flux, a man with limbs that can stretch “like he was made of taffy,” suddenly appears and instructs the boys to take a photo of their town with his vintage camera, residents become frozen in place and time. In the Virginia county that’s home to genial African-American cousins and renowned sleuths Otto and Sheed Alston (whose sleuthing skills are rivaled only by crafty twin sisters), curious goings-on are commonplace, but on the last day of summer vacation, things “get stranger than usual”-by a lot. In his inventive middle grade debut, Giles ( Overturned) riotously scrambles time, moving it backward, forward-and not at all.
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