Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1950s - Rilegato

Diedrich, Maria

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 085496648X ISBN 13: 9780854966486

Casa editrice: Berg Pub Ltd, 1990

Riassunto

In the 1930s and 1940s American women, like women elsewhere in the Western world, experienced three very different and contradictory historical phases: women in the nation's workforce, denounced as parasites in the face of mass unemployment during the Depression, were courted to replace men in the US economy during the Second World War only to be dismissed to return to their "natural realm", the home, as the GIs came back from the front. The contributors to this volume discuss some of the questions which pose themselves when one looks back to this period: how did American women respond to the period's confusingly contradictory discourse on woman's place and woman's role in American society? Did women allow themselves to be shoved around like pawns on the national chessboard? There is no better way of finding the answers to these questions than by looking at the literature written by American women, which gives an excellent insight into the perceptions, feelings and ways of life of women at this time. The picture which emerges is as varied, rich and complex as the experiences it reflects. This collection does only deal with white, middle-class women of mainly Protestant extraction but with Italian and especially Afro-American women as well.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Berg Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 085496648X
• ISBN 13: 9780854966486
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 166
• Redattore: Fischer-Hornung Dorothea