The angelic mother and the predatory seductress
Subtitle: poor white women in Southern literature of the Great Depression
By: Ashley Craig Lancaster
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807144459; 9780807144466; 9780807144473; 9780807144480
Subjects: In literature; Rural poor in literature; Literature and society; Women, White, in literature; History and criticism; American literature; History
Notes: "Eugenics and Politics: Unlikely Unions and the Stereotyping of the Southern Poor White Woman -- Questioning the Eugenic Agenda: Faulkner, Caldwell, and Steinbeck Three Responses to America's "Social Responsibility" -- Making the Eugenic "Myth" a Reality: The Fictionalizing of Depression-Era Documentary Work -- Up from Eugenics: The Gastonia Novels and the Redefining of the Southern Poor White Woman."

Includes bibliographical references and index.