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Author Loewenstein, Laurie, author.

Title Unmentionables / by Laurie Lowenstein.

Publication Info. New York : Akashic Books, [2014]
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Summary Marian Elliott Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Emporia with her speech: How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? The crowd is further appalled when Marian falls off the stage and sprains her ankle, and is forced to remain among them for a week. As the week passes, she throws into turmoil the town's unspoken rules governing social order, women, and Negroes. The recently widowed newspaper editor Deuce Garland, his lapels glittering with fraternal pins, has always been a community booster, his desire to conform rooted in a legacy of shame--his great-grandfather married a black woman, and the town will never let Deuce forget it, especially not his father-in-law, the owner of the newspaper and Deuce's boss. Deuce and his father-in-law are already at odds, since the old man refuses to allow Deuce's stepdaughter, Helen, to go to Chicago to fight for women's suffrage. But Marian's arrival shatters Deuce's notions of what is acceptable, versus what is right, and Deuce falls madly in love with the tall activist from New York. During Marian's stay in Emporia, Marian pushes Deuce to become a greater, braver, and more dynamic man than he ever imagined was possible. He takes a stand against his father-in-law by helping Helen escape to Chicago; and he publishes an article exposing the county's oldest farm family as the source of a recent typhoid outbreak, risking his livelihood and reputation. Marian's journey takes her to the frozen mud of France's Picardy region, just beyond the lines, to help destitute villagers as the Great War rages on. Helen, in Chicago, is hired as a streetcar conductor surrounded by bitter men who resent her taking a man's job. Meanwhile, Deuce struggles to make a living and find his place in Emporia's wider community after losing the newspaper.
Subject Feminists -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.
Newspaper editors -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.
Chautauqua (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
Feminists. (OCoLC)fst00922831
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Newspaper editors. (OCoLC)fst01037053
New York (State) -- Chautauqua. (OCoLC)fst01212525
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Other Form: Print version: Loewenstein, Laurie. Unmentionables. New York : Akashic Books, [2014] 9781617751943 (DLC) 2013938804 (OCoLC)835374231
ISBN 9781617752056 (electronic bk.)
1617752053 (electronic bk.)
1306445426 (electronic bk.)
9781306445429 (electronic bk.)
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