Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
1995
PS374.W6 H357 1995 (Mapit)
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Title
Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
Author
Hapke, Laura.
ISBN
9780820319087 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820319082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820317182 (alk. paper)
0820317187 (alk. paper)
0820319082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820317182 (alk. paper)
0820317187 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1995.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS374.W6 H357 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.5209352042
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1. Old whine, new battles: men's needs, women's jobs
2. Earth mothers, streetwalkers, and masculine social protest fiction
3. Feminine social protest fiction and the mother-burden
4. Love's wages: women, work, fiction, and romance
5. The rising of the mill women: Gastonia and its literature
6. With apologies for competence: women, profession, tales of conflict
Conclusion: Depression fictions.
2. Earth mothers, streetwalkers, and masculine social protest fiction
3. Feminine social protest fiction and the mother-burden
4. Love's wages: women, work, fiction, and romance
5. The rising of the mill women: Gastonia and its literature
6. With apologies for competence: women, profession, tales of conflict
Conclusion: Depression fictions.