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Intimacy And Autonomy: Twentieth Century American Women And The Quest For Self-Realization, Mary Florence Barford
Intimacy And Autonomy: Twentieth Century American Women And The Quest For Self-Realization, Mary Florence Barford
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This dissertation examines the effects of culturally managed gender expectations on intimate spaces. The study of these intimate spaces is rooted in the biographies of four relationships in the post-war period. Through exploration of these individual stories an understanding emerges of how monolithic cultural paradigms work for men and for women in very different ways. For purposes of archival availability and continuity, this dissertation focuses on a very specific group of people, namely women of great talent and ambition who were either married to or in a relationship with a man whose fame eclipsed her own. My question became how …