This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class...
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This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Naturalism and the Working Woman -- Chapter One: The Female Domestic in Naturalistic Fiction -- Chapter Two: Not a Common Shop-Girl -- II: The "New Woman" -- Chapter Three: Women Doctors in Henry James and William Dean Howells -- Chapter Four: Women, Work, and Cross-Class Alliances in the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Chapter Five: Naturalism and the New Woman in Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground -- III: Race, Sex, and Class -- Chapter Six: Work, Race, and the Performance of Gender in Ann Petry's The Street -- IV: Working Women in Drama and Film -- Chapter Seven: Feminism, Sentimentality, and Realism in Rachel Crothers's Working-Women Plays -- Chapter Eight: Career Women in 1940s Cinema -- Index -- About the Contributors.
