Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism

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UNC Press Books, 2000 - Photography - 363 pages
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "domestic vision" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of turn-of-the-century America. These women photographers, white and middle class, c
 

Contents

What a Woman Can Do with a Camera
15
Seeing Sentiment Photography Race and the Innocent Eye
52
Tender Violence Domestic Photographs Domestic Fictions Educational Reform
94
Black and White and Color The Hampton Album
127
Käsebiers Indians
177
The Domestic Unconscious
209
The Missing Link
262
Epilogue
291
Notes
303
Bibliography
321
Credits
341
Index
349
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Laura Wexler is professor of American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University.

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