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Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work through critical essays about representations of women’s work in non-canonical literary writings, mass media, and popular culture. Covering a broad range of texts including Paule Marshall’s fiction, Natasha Trethewey’s poetry, and the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, among others, , this collection takes an intersectional approach in order to shed light on the definition and meaning of marginalized women's work and the value of their labor in the capitalistic economic systems of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Author:   Hediye Özkan ,  Samantha Allan ,  Hatice Bay ,  Lynn Deboeck, University of Utah
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781666923841

ISBN 10:   1666923842
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   11 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Motherhood, Work, and Resistance Chapter One: “Package Labeled Colored”: Reading Race, Gender, and Labor in Ann Petry’s The Street Namrata Dey Roy Chapter Two: Invisible Labor, Partnership, and Resistance: Staging Women’s Undervalued Work Lynn Deboeck Part II: Poetic Representations of Working Women Chapter Three: “Eschew[Ing] The Polaroid Instant”: The Depiction of Women Workers in Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work and Bellocq’s Ophelia Jill Goad Chapter Four: Memory at Work: Docupoetry and the Mnemonic Labor of Women Samantha Allan Chapter Five: Decoration as a Form of Self-Care: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks’s Black Female Domestic Workers Alicia Ye Sul Oh Part III: Immigrant Working Women in Metropolitans Chapter Six: Cutting and Contriving: Ulene Payne in Paule Marshall’s Novel The Fisher King Margaret E. Salifu Chapter Seven: Wife, Woman, and Breadwinner: Nazneen Ahmed’s Journey in a Foreign Land M. Anjum Khan Part IV: Visual Representation of Working Women Chapter Eight: (In)Visible Bodies: The Corporeal Representations of Working Women in Early 21st-Century American Primetime Drama Emilia Nodżak Chapter Nine: Working Black Women and the Performance of Racial Uplift in the Netflix Series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker Hatice Bay Chapter Ten: Clocking in and Clocking out: Roseanne and the Politics of Gendered Work in Its First Season Peter Piatkowski

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This superb collection uniquely explores a range of genres and mediums to highlight the complexity of employment in the literary and visual representations of and by marginalized women. The provocative and wide-ranging essays explore novel, drama, poetry, visual art, television, and popular culture by examining issues related to labor conditions, intersectionality, stereotyping, exploitation, and invisibility, as well as the achievement and empowerment provided by work. Bringing attention to the ways literary and popular representations of women's employment have been stereotyped and gendered, this collection challenges accepted notions and deepens our understanding of the role of work in identity formation and cultural connection for marginalized women. --Tanya Heflin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

This superb collection uniquely explores a range of genres and mediums to highlight the complexity of employment in the literary and visual representations of and by marginalized women. The provocative and wide-ranging essays explore novel, drama, poetry, visual art, television, and popular culture by examining issues related to labor conditions, intersectionality, stereotyping, exploitation, and invisibility, as well as the achievement and empowerment provided by work. Bringing attention to the ways literary and popular representations of women's employment have been stereotyped and gendered, this collection challenges accepted notions and deepens our understanding of the role of work in identity formation and cultural connection for marginalized women.--Tanya Heflin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

This superb collection uniquely explores a range of genres and mediums to highlight the complexity of employment in the literary and visual representations of and by marginalized women. The provocative and wide-ranging essays explore novel, drama, poetry, visual art, television, and popular culture by examining issues related to labor conditions, intersectionality, stereotyping, exploitation, and invisibility, as well as the achievement and empowerment provided by work. Bringing attention to the ways literary and popular representations of women's employment have been stereotyped and gendered, this collection challenges accepted notions and deepens our understanding of the role of work in identity formation and cultural connection for marginalized women.

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Hediye Özkan is instructor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Aksaray University, Turkey.

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