Working Women, Literary Ladies
Title | Working Women, Literary Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia J. Cook |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2008-01-30 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0199716617 |
Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It is the first book to examine the fascinating exchange between the work and literary spheres for laboring women in the rapidly industrializing America of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As women entered the public sphere as workers, their opportunities for intellectual growth expanded, even as those same opportunities were often tightly circumscribed by the factory owners who were providing them. These developments, both institutional and personal, opened up a range of new possibilities for working-class women that profoundly affected women of all classes and the larger social fabric. Cook examines the extraordinary and diverse literary productions of these working women, ranging from their first New England magazine of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's periodical, Mother Earth; from Lucy Larcom's epic poem of female factory life, An Idyl of Work, to Theresa Malkiel's fictional account of sweatshop workers in New York, The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. This vital new book traces the hopes and tensions generated by the expectations of working-class women as they created a wholly new way of being alive in the world.
Calling Home
Title | Calling Home PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Zandy |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780813515281 |
Working-class women are the majority of women in the United States, and yet their work and their culture are rarely visible. Calling Home is an anthology of writings by and about working-class women. Over fifty selections represent the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of working-class experience. This is writing grounded in social history, not in the academy. Traditional boundaries of genre and periodization collapse in this collection, which includes reportage, oral histories, speeches, songs, and letters, as well as poetry, stories, and essays. The divisions in this collection - telling stories, bearing witness, celebrating solidarity - address the distinction of "by" or "about" working-class women, and show the connections between individual identity and collective sensibility in a common history of struggle for economic justice. The geography of home, identity, parents, sex, motherhood, the dominance of the job, the overlapping of private and public worlds, the promise of solidarity and community are a few of the themes of this book. Here is a chorus of working class women's voices: Sandra Cisneros, Barbara Garson, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Smith, Endesha I. M. Holland, Mother Jones, Nellie Wong, Agnes Smedley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Sharon Doubiago, Carol Tarlen, Hazel Hall, Margaret Randall, Judy Grahn, and many others! The aesthetic impulse is shaped by class, but not limited to one ruling class. What connects these writers is a collective consciousness, a class, which rejects bondage and lays claim to liberation through all the possibilities of language. Calling Home is illustrated with family photographs as well as images of working women by professional photographers.
Literary Ladies
Title | Literary Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | American literature |
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Letters for literary ladies
Title | Letters for literary ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Edgeworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1795 |
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Letters for Literary Ladies
Title | Letters for Literary Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Edgeworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1805 |
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Victorian Working Women
Title | Victorian Working Women PDF eBook |
Author | Wanda F. Neff |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 113661804X |
This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure the discovery of Victorian witers in search of fresh material. Chaucer included unmemorable working women and Charlotte Bronte in 'Shirley' had Caroline Helstone a reflection that spinning 'kept her servants up very late'. It seems that the Victorians see the women worker as an object of oity, portrated in early nineteenth century as a victim of long hours, injustice and unfavourable conditions. This volume looks at the working woman in British industries and professions from 1832 to1850.
A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature
Title | A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Cotgreave |
Publisher | London : E. Stock |
Pages | 766 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Bibliography |
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