Forgotten Men and Fallen Women : The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives.
Allen, Holly.
Forgotten Men and Fallen Women : The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (268 pages)
Forgotten Men And Fallen Women Cover -- Contents -- "More Terrible than the Sword": Emotions, Facts, and Gendered New Deal Narratives -- 1. The War to Save the Forgotten Man: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Work Relief -- 2. "Uncle Sam's Wayside Inns": Transient Narratives and the Sexual Politics of the Emergent Welfare State -- 3. "Builder of Men": Homosociality and the Nationalist Accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- 4. "To Wallop the Ladies": Woman Blaming and Nation Saving in the Rhetoric of Emergency Relief -- 5. Civilian Protectors and Meddlesome Women: Gendering the War Effort through the Office of Civilian Defense -- 6. The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1942-46 -- Stories of Homecoming: Deserving GIs and Faithless Service Wives -- Notes -- Index.
Holly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
9780801455841
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Personal narratives.
Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
E806
973.917
Forgotten Men and Fallen Women : The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (268 pages)
Forgotten Men And Fallen Women Cover -- Contents -- "More Terrible than the Sword": Emotions, Facts, and Gendered New Deal Narratives -- 1. The War to Save the Forgotten Man: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Work Relief -- 2. "Uncle Sam's Wayside Inns": Transient Narratives and the Sexual Politics of the Emergent Welfare State -- 3. "Builder of Men": Homosociality and the Nationalist Accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- 4. "To Wallop the Ladies": Woman Blaming and Nation Saving in the Rhetoric of Emergency Relief -- 5. Civilian Protectors and Meddlesome Women: Gendering the War Effort through the Office of Civilian Defense -- 6. The Citizen-Soldier and the Citizen-Internee: Fraternity, Race, and American Nationhood, 1942-46 -- Stories of Homecoming: Deserving GIs and Faithless Service Wives -- Notes -- Index.
Holly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
9780801455841
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Personal narratives.
Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
E806
973.917