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The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 - Defining the Radical Romance (Hardcover)
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The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 - Defining the Radical Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
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As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the
nineteenth century, they challenged Victorian notions of female
domesticity and chastity. With virtue at the forefront of
discussions regarding working women, aspects of working-class
women’s culture—fashion, fiction, and dance halls—become
vivid signifiers for moral impropriety, and attempts to censure
these activities become overt attempts to censure female sexuality
in the workplace. The Personal and the Political in American
Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 argues that these informal
and often ignored “trifles” of female community provided the
building blocks for female solidarity in the workplace. While most
critical approaches to working-class fiction emphasize female
suffering rather than agency, this book argues that working women
themselves viewed aspects of consumer culture and new avenues for
courtship as extensions of their rights as breadwinners. The strike
itself is an intense moment of political upheaval that lends itself
to more extensive personal and sexual freedoms. Through its
analysis of strike novels, this book provides a fuller picture of
working-class women as they simultaneously navigate new identities
as “working ladies” and enter the dramatic and sometimes
violent world of labor activism. This book is recommended for
scholars of literary studies, women’s studies, and US history.
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