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Description

1. vi, 234 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Some of the most indelible images of women in recent American film have been of working women fighting for labor reform or to expose corporate corruption. This critical text explores films with female labor activists as main protagonists, illuminating issues of gender and class while depicting the challenges of working class women"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Labor movement in motion pictures
2. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
3. Working class women in motion pictures

Contents

1. Rising up against the dominant : the multiple transgressions of Salt of the Earth -- Working-class women, protofeminist performance, and resistant ruptures in the movie musical The pajama game -- Recovering women activists' voices : Union maids, With babies and banners, and the feminist historical documentary -- Hollywood's working-class heroines : Norma Rae, Silkwood, and the politics of the docudrama -- Negotiating feminist politics in the third wave : labor struggle and solidarity in Live nude girls unite! -- Hollywood's feminist labor heroines moving into the twenty-first century : have we really come a long way? -- Fifty years of female labor activism in film : mapping the rhetorical tensions.

Call number

1. MFL 11-1259

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Borda, Jennifer L., 1973-

Title

1. Women labor activists in the movies : nine depictions of workplace organizers, 1954-2005 / Jennifer L. Borda.

Imprint

1. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2010029840

ISBN

1. 9780786448418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2. 0786448415 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. MFL 11-1259