Looking for the New Deal - Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor Elna C. Green is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Originally from North Carolina, she is a graduate of Wake Forest and Tulane Universities. Her previous books include This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 and Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Klappentext Rife with palpable misery, the hundreds of letters assembled in Forgotten Women paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, Florida women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters to agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials asking for relief assistance. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. Zusammenfassung Includes hundreds of letters which paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. This work reveals the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The struggles of many of the women! however! reflect the Depression's extraordinarily devastating impact in Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Elna C. (EDT) Green
• Assisted by: Elna C Green (Editor), Elna C. Green (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2007
• EAN: 9781570036583
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-658-3
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Women's Diaries and Letters of; Women's Diaries & Letters of the South; Women's Diaries and Letters of; Women's Diaries & Letters of the South
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories