Laura Wexler is associate professor of American studies and women's and gender studies at Yale University.
Review
Wexler offers a groundbreaking account of how some of America's first women photojournalists became complicit with America's imperialistic project.Women's Review of Books
Summary
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "domestic vision" that reinforced the imperialism & racism of turn-of-the-century America.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. What a Woman Can Do with a Camera
2. Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye
3. Tender Violence: Domestic Photographs, Domestic Fictions, and Educational Reform
4. Black and White and Color:The Hampton Album
5. Kasebier's Indians
6. The Domestic Unconscious
7. The Missing Link
