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Forgotten Men and Fallen Women : The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forgotten Men and Fallen WomenDDC classification:
  • 973.917
LOC classification:
  • E806
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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