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The struggle against the Great Depression as told in excerpts from the life stories of sixteen talented and influential women who confronted the problems that affected ordinary women. A landmark collection. --Mary Banas, Booklist
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¡Para derrotar a Hades, el ejército de Atenea penetra en el "Lienzo de lo Perdido". Sin embargo, Hades parece burlarse de ellos con su inteligente plan de atacar el Santuario.
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出版社周刊评论
This welcome history casts light on the critical but often overlooked roles played by women in the 1930s. As the editors of the writings excerpted here observe, ``the United States could never have survived the Depression without the collective contributions of American womanhood.'' Of the 16 women represented, (among them Dorothy Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, ``Mother'' Bloor), the majority are city dwellers who at one time worked in New York. Most of the women are white and Protestant; their economic backgrounds are diverse and their marital histories often troubled. Each reveals the personal courage that motivated entry into public life in a time of narrowed resources and opportunities for most women. Those represented here are in the vanguard of social activism as we know it today. Both editors are history professors who teach in Ohio, Sternsher at Bowling Green State University, Sealander at Wright State University. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《书目》(Booklist)书评
The editors of this landmark collection of original writings by 16 American women leaders of the 1930s argue that feminism continued to flourish after women won the vote and that women were not, as the traditional view holds, wholesale victims of the economic crisis. As historians Sternsher and Sealander comment in their fine introductory overview of the decade, some extraordinary women helped our country survive the Great Depression through their social activism, influence as federal government officials, and union organizing. Through the testimony, in the form of autobiographical excerpts, of the era's well-known (e.g., Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Bourke-White, Frances Perkins) and little-known feminists, we glimpse firsthand how women shaped national and local agendas in the community, the government, and the workplace to respond to pressing public needs, despite the many obstacles erected against women. Sometimes elegant, often rough-hewn, each woman's words help put into sharp perspective an increasingly mythologized era of social history by telling the other side of the story--hers. A lucid, well-organized volume; contains drawings and notes. No index. --Mary Banas
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
This collection comprises 16 excerpts from the published autobiographies of women active in public roles during the Depression. The mix includes prominent women, like Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Lillian Wald, and Dorothy Day, as well as less familiar contributors, such as black journalist Ellen Terry, labor organizer Lucy Randolph Mason, and socialist writer Mary Heaton Vorse. Each selection compels attention, and together they offer a sampling of the variety of work women did in government service, labor organizing, radical politics, and the arts. The general reader looking for inspirational tales from an American crucible will find this anthology valuable.-- Cyn thia Harrison, Federal Judicial Ctr., Washington, D.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Introduction | p. 3 |
Part 1. In Town and Country | |
"We have all suffered together. . ." | p. 19 |
"The devastation of homes without number. . ." | p. 33 |
"I had a point of view of my own . . ." | p. 46 |
"It is a permanent revolution, this Catholic Worker Movement . . ." | p. 67 |
"Here were faces engraved with the very paralysis of despair . . ." | p. 95 |
Part 2 In the Government | |
"There was no special deference because I was a woman . . ." | p. 121 |
"Many things we had to leave undone . . ." | p. 134 |
"Did I consider the theatre a weapon? . . ." | p. 151 |
"Tossed together in a strange fellowship of necessity . . ." | p. 165 |
"We had to close our eyes and minds to so much . . ." | p. 188 |
"I knew that I was in it to the end . . ." | p. 202 |
Part 3 In the Workplace | |
"The road to Communism was the only road out . . ." | p. 225 |
"I never saw anything like the militancy of those farmers . . ." | p. 249 |
"In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now . . ." | p. 262 |
"These ten- and eleven-hour days . . . burned my conscience . . ." | p. 273 |
"People can no longer live on what they are getting . . ." | p. 296 |
Afterword | p. 309 |