Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media - Hardcover

by Hediye Özkan (Editor), Samantha Allan (Contribution by), Hatice Bay (Contribution by)

Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work through critical essays about representations of women's work in non-canonical literary writings, mass media, and popular culture. Covering a broad range of texts including Paule Marshall's fiction, Natasha Trethewey's poetry, and the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, among others, this collection takes an intersectional approach in order to shed light on the definition and meaning of marginalized women's work and the value of their labor in the capitalistic economic systems of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author Biography

Hediye Özkan is instructor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Aksaray University, Turkey.