| Description |
xxi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
English fiction Special subjects Women |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-273) and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Depressions in literature.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women employees in literature.
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Women -- Employment -- United States -- Historiography.
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Work in literature.
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| LC no. |
94040316 |
| ISBN |
0820317187 (alk. paper) |
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