Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America

by Paula Rabinowitz

Book Overview

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse disappeared during the decade. She focuses on the ways in which sexuality and maternity reconstruct the "classic" proletarian novel to speak about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843326
• ISBN13: 9780807843321
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"