Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s - Couverture souple

Hapke, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820319082 ISBN 13 : 9780820319087

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 1997

Synopsis

Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere.

Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood.

A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LAURA HAPKE is a professor of English at Pace University in New York City. She is the author of Tales of the Working Girl: Wage-earning Women in American Literature, 1890-1925 and The Worker in American Fiction: Texts and Contexts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820319082
• ISBN 13: 9780820319087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible