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Ithaca : Cornell University, 2015

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780801455841 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780801453571 (cloth : alk. paper)

Print version: Allen, Holly. Forgotten men and fallen women : the cultural politics of New Deal narratives. Ithaca : Cornell University, 2015 ISBN 9780801453571

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : more terrible than the sword : emotions, facts, and gendered New Deal narratives -- The war to save the forgotten man : gender, citizenship, and the politics of work relief -- Uncle Sam’s wayside inns : transient narratives and the sexual politics of the emergent welfare state -- Builder of men : homosociality and the nationalist accents of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- To wallop the ladies : woman-blaming and nation-saving in the rhetoric of emergency relief -- Civilian protectors and meddlesome women : gendering the war effort through the Office of Civilian Defense -- The citizen-soldier and the citizen-internee : fraternity, race, and American nationhood, 1942-1946 -- Conclusion : stories of homecoming : deserving GIs and faithless service wives.

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