Women in the Great Depression and the Great Recession: Has Anything Changed?
Modern Times Bookstore, Friday, March 21, 2014, 7 pm
Dr. Lois Rita Helmbold
This slide show of photographic and artistic images of Black and white working
class women during the 1930s is accompanied by comparative analysis of their
survival strategies, their experiences in the labor force, and their unpaid labor
in the home. The talk also addresses how race and class affect how women are
faring during the current recession.
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Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940
This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women
of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the 36
writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger,
Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many
working-class black and white women. The topics range from sexuality and family relationships
to race, class, and patriarchy to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is
"peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."
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