Forgotten Men and Fallen Women
Title | Forgotten Men and Fallen Women PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Allen |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2015-04-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801455847 |
Holly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
Forgotten Men and Fallen Women
Title | Forgotten Men and Fallen Women PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Allen |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2015-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801455839 |
During the Great Depression and into the war years, the Roosevelt administration sought to transform the political, institutional, and social contours of the United States. One result of the New Deal was the emergence and deployment of a novel set of narratives—reflected in social scientific case studies, government documents, and popular media—meant to reorient relationships among gender, race, sexuality, and national political power. In Forgotten Men and Fallen Women, Holly Allen focuses on the interplay of popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes. In doing so, she explores how federal officials used stories of collective civic identity to enlist popular support for the expansive New Deal state and, later, for the war effort.These stories, she argues, had practical consequences for federal relief politics. The "forgotten man," identified by Roosevelt in a fireside chat in 1932, for instance, was a compelling figure of collective civic identity and the counterpart to the white, male breadwinner who was the prime beneficiary of New Deal relief programs. He was also associated with women who were blamed either for not supporting their husbands and family at all (owing to laziness, shrewishness, or infidelity) or for supporting them too well by taking their husbands’ jobs, rather than staying at home and allowing the men to work.During World War II, Allen finds, federal policies and programs continued to be shaped by specific gendered stories—most centrally, the story of the heroic white civilian defender, which animated the Office of Civilian Defense, and the story of the sacrificial Nisei (Japanese-American) soldier, which was used by the War Relocation Authority. The Roosevelt administration’s engagement with such widely circulating narratives, Allen concludes, highlights the affective dimensions of U.S. citizenship and state formation.
Fallen Women and Forgotten Men
Title | Fallen Women and Forgotten Men PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Marie Allen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Depressions |
ISBN |
The Cultural Front
Title | The Cultural Front PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Denning |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781859841709 |
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
Movies and Mass Culture
Title | Movies and Mass Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John Belton |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780813522289 |
On how American identity is shaped by motion pictures
Citizen Hobo
Title | Citizen Hobo PDF eBook |
Author | Todd DePastino |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2003-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226143781 |
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America, forging a counterculture known as hobohemia. This work tells the epic story of hobohemia, drawing a new interpretation of the American century in the process.
Gender Ironies of Nationalism
Title | Gender Ironies of Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Tamar Mayer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2012-10-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134715994 |
This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. It includes international case studies from Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA, Turkey, China, India and the Caribbean. The contributors offer both the masculine and feminine perspective, exposing how nations are comprised of sexed bodies, and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised. Whilst it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept the obligation of nation and nation building.