Marginalized women and work in 20th- and 21st-century British and American literature and media / edited by Hediye Özkan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Women in literature.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2022.

Summary:

As a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study on literary and visual representations of woman's work, this collection examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work to understand the position of working women and the value of her labor in the capitalistic economic systems.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Motherhood, Work, and Resistance

"Package Labeled Colored"

Invisible Labor, Partnership, and Resistance

Poetic Representations of Working Women

"Eschew[ing] the Polaroid Instant"

Memory at Work

Decoration as a Form of Self-Care

Immigrant Working Women in Metropolitans

Cutting and Contriving

Wife, Woman, and Breadwinner

Visual Representation of Working Women

(In)Visible Bodies

Working Black Women and the Performance of Racial Uplift in the Netflix Series Self Made:

Clocking in and Clocking out

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-66699-676-9

1-66692-385-0

OCLC:

1501681458