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Forgotten Men and Fallen Women : The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives /
During the Great Depression and into the war years, the Roosevelt administration sought to transform the political, institutional, and social contours of the United States. One result of the New Deal was the emergence and deployment of a novel set of narratives - reflected in social scientific case...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : more terrible than the sword : emotions, facts, and gendered New Deal narratives
- The war to save the forgotten man : gender, citizenship, and the politics of work relief
- Uncle Sam's wayside inns : transient narratives and the sexual politics of the emergent welfare state
- Builder of men : homosociality and the nationalist accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps
- To wallop the ladies : woman-blaming and nation-saving in the rhetoric of emergency relief
- Civilian protectors and meddlesome women : gendering the war effort through the Office of Civilian Defense
- The citizen-soldier and the citizen-internee : fraternity, race, and American nationhood, 1942-1946
- Conclusion : stories of homecoming : deserving GIs and faithless service wives.