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History

Awarded for the best article published in the Journal of Popular Culture.

Notes

  • For the Best Essay in the Journal of Popular Culture (Ohio, USA) in a given year.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1989

winner "Handfasted" : An Australian Feminist's American Utopia Nan Bowman Albinski , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Popular Culture , Fall vol. 23 no. 2 1989; (p. 15-31)
The author argues that Spence created a Utopia as an imaginative solution to the inequalities she faced in her own life, but found it impossible to graft this onto the realities of nineteenth-century life.
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