An edition of Daughters of the Great Depression (1995)

Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work and Fiction in the American 1930s.

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Daughters of the Great Depression
Laura Hapke
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An edition of Daughters of the Great Depression (1995)

Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work and Fiction in the American 1930s.

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Working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s, argues Laura Hapke. In Daughters of the Great Depression she reinterprets more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression Era fiction to 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.

To locate these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of 1930s sources not usually considered by literary scholars. These sources include 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.

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Univ.Georgia P.
Language
English
Pages
286

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Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work and Fiction in the American 1930s.
1997, Univ.Georgia P.
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Cover of: Daughters of the Great Depression
Daughters of the Great Depression: women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s
1995, University of Georgia Press
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Library of Congress
PS374.W6 H357

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xxi,286p. :
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286

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OL18332196M
ISBN 10
0820319082
OCLC/WorldCat
169583774
Library Thing
140398
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