Feminism, the left, and postwar literary culture
By: Kathlene McDonald
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781617033018; 9781617033025
Subjects: Women authors; Feminism and literature; Feminist literary criticism; Minority authors; History and criticism; American literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Salt of the earth and the cold war erasure of a left feminist culture; title: Domestic ideology as containment ideology: antifascism and the woman question in the party presses; title: Fighting fascism at home and abroad: the cold war exile of Martha Dodd; title: "In her full courage and dignity": Alice Childress and the struggle against black women's triple oppression; title: Antiracism, anticolonialism, and the contradictory left feminism of Lorraine Hansberry; title: "Ask him if he's tried it at home": making the personal political; title: Epilogue: A left feminist literary history.