TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Holly
TI  - Forgotten men and fallen women: the cultural politics of New Deal narratives 
SN  - 9780801455841
AV  - E806 .F674 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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