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Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States  
Author: Jacqueline Ellis
ISBN: 0879727438
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Through detailed analyses of documentary photography and radical literature, Silent Witnesses explores how working-class identity has been repressed and manipulated to fit the expectations of liberal politicians, radical authors, Marxist historians, feminist academics, and contemporary cultural theorists. This book shows how the silence of working-class women in American culture is constructed and reinforced in photographs by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, and in writing by Meridel Le Sueur. Nevertheless, using work by Esther Bubley and Tillie Olsen to suggest how working-class female identity might be represented in more complicated ways, Silent Witnesses also reveals a cultural and political context where the creative and intellectual power of individual working-class women can be fully expressed.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Explores how working-class identity in documentary photography and radical literature of the 1930s and 1940s has been repressed and manipulated to fit the expectations of liberal politicians, radical authors, Marxist historians, feminist academics, and contemporary cultural theories. Work analyzed includes photography by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, and writing by Meridel Le Sueur. Work by Esther Bublet and Tillie Olsen is examined to suggest how working- class female identity might be represented in more complicated ways. Includes b&w photos. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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