Women of Valor: The Struggle Against the Great Depression as told in Their Own Life Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566632463 ISBN 13: 9781566632461

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 1999

Synopsis

The struggle against the Great Depression as told in excerpts from the life stories of sixteen talented and influential women who confronted the problems that affected ordinary women. A landmark collection. Mary Banas, Booklist

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard Sternsher is Distinguished University Professor of History at Bowling Green State University; among his many books are the award-winning Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal and Hitting Home: The Great Depression in Town and Country. Judith Sealander is Professor of History at Wright State University and author of As Minority Becomes Majority.

From Publishers Weekly:

This welcome history casts light on the critical but often overlooked roles played by women in the 1930s. As the editors of the writings excerpted here observe, "the United States could never have survived the Depression without the collective contributions of American womanhood." Of the 16 women represented, (among them Dorothy Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Mother" Bloor), the majority are city dwellers who at one time worked in New York. Most of the women are white and Protestant; their economic backgrounds are diverse and their marital histories often troubled. Each reveals the personal courage that motivated entry into public life in a time of narrowed resources and opportunities for most women. Those represented here are in the vanguard of social activism as we know it today. Both editors are history professors who teach in Ohio, Sternsher at Bowling Green State University, Sealander at Wright State University.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1566632463
• ISBN 13: 9781566632461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319
• Editor: Sternsher Bernard, Sealander Judith