Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers

by Karyn L Hollis and Associate Professor Karyn L Hollis

During the 1920s and 1930s at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, working-class women were educated in the liberal arts and instructed in writing to assume more powerful roles in the industrial workplace. In Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, Karyn L. Hollis tells the remarkable story of how this multiclass, multiethnic American institution rooted in composition pedagogy, literary history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809325675
• ISBN13: 9780809325672
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"