Polina Kroik

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138327269
• ISBN-10: 1138327263
• Artikelnr.: 55157711

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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