Silent Witnesses: Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States

by Jacqueline Ellis

Overview

Through detailed analyses of documentary photography and radical literature, Silent Witnesses explores how working-class identity has been repressed and manipulated to fit the expectations of liberal politicians, radical authors, Marxist historians, feminist academics, and contemporary cultural theorists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879727444
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/15/1998
Edition description:	1
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Editorial Reviews

Explores how working-class identity in documentary photography and radical literature of the 1930s and 1940s has been repressed and manipulated to fit the expectations of liberal politicians, radical authors, Marxist historians, feminist academics, and contemporary cultural theories. Work analyzed includes photography by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott, and writing by Meridel Le Sueur. Work by Esther Bublet and Tillie Olsen is examined to suggest how working- class female identity might be represented in more complicated ways. Includes b&w photos. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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