Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950 consists of eight
original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics
on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to
mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how
the American working woman has been presented, misrepresented, and
underrepresented in American realistic and naturalistic literature
(1865-1930), and by later authors influenced by realism and
naturalism. Points explored include: the historical vocational
realities of working women (e.g., factory workers, seamstresses,
maids, teachers, writers, prostitutes, etc.); the distortions in
literary representations of female work; the ways in which these
representations still inform the lives of working women today; and
new perspectives from queer theory, immigrant studies, and race and
class analyses. These essays draw on current feminist thought while
remaining mindful of the historicity of the context. The essayists
discuss important women writers of the period (for instance, Ellen
Glasgow, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rachel Crothers, Willa Cather,
and the understudied Ann Petry), as well as canonical writers like
Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, and William Dean Howells. The
discussions touch on a variety of literary and artistic genres:
novels, short stories, other forms of fiction, biographies, dramas,
and films. In the introductory essay and throughout the collection,
the term "working women in the United States" is deconstructed; the
historical and cultural definitions of "work," and the words "work
in America" are redefined through the lens of genders.
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