Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9780367731908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 198 str.

Polina Kroik

Opis

This book emphasizes the interrelation between women’s workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Mixing Business with Pleasure: The "Business Girl" and the Rise of Fordism in Sinclair Lewis’s ‘The Job’ and Winston Churchill’s ‘The Dwelling-Place of Light’, 2 Flappers and Professionals: The Cultural Politics of Edith Wharton’s Later Fiction, 3 "Beggars in Velvet Gowns:" The Politics of Work, Race, and Class in Nella Larsen’s Fiction, 4 "A Girl Can’t Go on Laughing All the Time" Anita Loos and the Hollywood Studio System, 5 "I Guess You Could Say I’ve a Call": Work, Gender and Class in Sylvia Plath’s Fiction and Poetry, Conclusion: The Neoliberal Office, Postfeminism in Mad Men, and the Rise of the Gig Economy

O autorze

Polina Kroik holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on gender, work, and migration in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film. She has presented at numerous national conferences and contributed to peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Kroik teaches literature and writing at Fordham University and Baruch College, CUNY.