Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
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Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1995.
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N813.5209352/2
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English
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Physical content
xxi, 286 p. : ill. ; 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 Literat...
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Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1995.
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Georgia
Date Published
c1995.
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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 w...
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Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s / by Laura Hapke.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-273) and index.
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N813.5209352/2
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74VvDgMr4bp3
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0820317187 (alk. paper)
9780820317182 (alk. paper)
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813.5209352042
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991004987429702626
