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Author Allen, Holly, 1965- author.

Title Forgotten men and fallen women : the cultural politics of New Deal narratives / Holly Allen
Published Ithaca : Cornell University, 2015

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Contents 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
Summary 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 studies, government documents, and popular media - meant to reorient relationships among gender, race, sexuality, and national political power. This book focuses on the interplay of popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Personal narratives
Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Politics and culture
Race relations
Sex role
Social conditions
SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140517
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014039031
ISBN 9780801453571
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9780801455841
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