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

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University of Georgia Press, 01.01.1997 - 286 Seiten
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.

 

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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.

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TitelDaughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s
Autor/inLaura Hapke
Ausgabeillustriert, überarbeitet
VerlagUniversity of Georgia Press, 1997
ISBN0820319082, 9780820319087
Länge286 Seiten
  
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