Author: Laura Hapke
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
Daughters of the Great Depression
Author: Laura Hapke
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
Breadwinning Daughters
Author: Katrina Srigley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781442640290
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781442640290
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.
On the Picket Line
Author: Mary Eleanor Triece
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Working-class women's creative challenges to oppressive gender norms and workplace discrimination
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Working-class women's creative challenges to oppressive gender norms and workplace discrimination
California Women and Politics
Author: Robert W. Cherny
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803236085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803236085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Labor and the New Deal
Author: Louis Stark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Clara's Kitchen
Author: Clara Cannucciari
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429963719
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429963719
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
YouTube® sensation Clara Cannucciari shares her treasured recipes and commonsense wisdom in a heartwarming remembrance of the Great Depression Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.
It's Up to the Women
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1568585950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1568585950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
The American 1930s
Author: Peter Conn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521516404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521516404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.
Mississippi Women
Author: Martha H. Swain
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
The Woman Behind the New Deal
Author: Kirstin Downey
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400078563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country’s social safety network.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400078563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country’s social safety network.