Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women’s workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

The book interrogates three common narratives: The rise of Fordism as a "masculine" mode of production and the transition to an er...