Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-class Women in the United States

Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-class Women in the United States
ISBN-10
0879727446
ISBN-13
9780879727444
Series
Silent Witnesses
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Popular Press
Author
Jacqueline Ellis

Description

Explores how working-class identity in documentary photography and radical literature of the 1930s and 1940s has been repressed and manipulated to fit the expectations of liberal politicians, radical authors, Marxist historians, feminist academics, and contemporary cultural theories. Work analyzed includes photography by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, and writing by Meridel Le Sueur. Work by Esther Bublet and Tillie Olsen is examined to suggest how working- class female identity might be represented in more complicated ways. Includes bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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