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Title

Women and war : the changing status of American women from the 1930s to the 1950s / edited by Maria Diedrich and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung.

Publication

New York : Berg : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Diedrich, Maria.
• European Association for American Studies. Conference (1988 : Freie Universität Berlin)
• Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, 1949-

Description

x, 166 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses
• Women > United States > Social conditions > Congresses
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Women in literature > Congresses
• World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war > Congresses

Note

• Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the women's workshop of the biennial conference of the European Association of American Studies, held at the Freie Universität Berlin from Mar. 28-31, 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

World War II as a pivotal experience for American women / William H. Chafe -- The Americanization of Italian immigrant women in the 1930s and 1940s / Maddalena Tirabassi -- The ring or the dove : the new woman in Katherine Anne Porter's fiction / Esim Erdim -- Women in Lillian Hellman's plays, 1930-1950 / Ekaterini Georgoudaki -- "A book in translation about eggs and butter" : Gertrude Stein's World War II / Maria Diedrich -- Moses, man of power, man of knowledge : a "signifying" reading of Zora Neale Hurston (between a laugh and a song) / Paola Boi -- Ann Petry's The street and The narrows : a study of the influence of class, race, and gender on Afro-American women's lives / Nellie Y. McKay -- Paule Marshall's Bajan women in Brown girl, brownstones / Hélène Christol.

ISBN

085496648X

LCCN

^^^89018023^//r91

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library