Silent
Witnesses
Representations of Working-Class
Women in the United States
Jacqueline Ellis
Popular Press
This is an analysis of the ways working-class
women were represented in government photography and proletarian
literature between 1933 and 1945. Using images by Dorothea Lange,
Marion Post Wolcott and Esther Bubley, and writing by Meridel
Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen, the book investigates how working-class
female identity was manipulated to fit the political, moral,
and economic perspectives of a middle-class audience.
Ellis argues that even during a period of American history when
class politics were an important issue, the debate was intended
to advance the idea of a middle-class hegemony. Ellis feels working-class
identity should be expressed and discussed by people who are
excluded from political, cultural, and academic discussions.
Jacqueline Ellis is the Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. Her writing on constructions of working-class and gender identity in visual and popular culture has been published in the Feminist Review, and the History of Photography. She is also the co-editor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy and co-ordinates “Speaking Our Stories: The NJCU Oral History Project.”
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June 1998
LC: 97-003115 HD
270 pp. 6 x 9 24 b/w photos
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Paper $18.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-744-4 |
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Cloth $49.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-743-7 |
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