The New Woman in American Popular Culture

Author and Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Fellow Barbara Tepa Lupack, Ph.D., will explore the role of magazine illustration and editorial/political cartoons in defining and popularizing the notion of the “New Woman” of the turn of the twentieth century, whose emergence in fashion, art, and society helped to shape the careers of such female illustrators as Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Rose O’Neill, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley. The work of these and others offer surprising insights into the age and culture, especially in the wake of the world war and the advent of the fight for women’s suffrage.

The author or editor of more than 25 books, Dr. Lupack is former Academic Dean and Professor of English at SUNY Rochester, and is currently a New York State Public Scholar.

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