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.
Hediye OEzkan is instructor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Aksaray University, Turkey.
Part I: Motherhood, Work, and Resistance Chapter One: "Package Labeled Colored": Reading Race, Gender, and Labor in Ann Petry's The Street Namrata Dey Roy Chapter Two: Invisible Labor, Partnership, and Resistance: Staging Women's Undervalued Work Lynn Deboeck Part II: Poetic Representations of Working Women Chapter Three: "Eschew[Ing] The Polaroid Instant": The Depiction of Women Workers in Natasha Trethewey's Domestic Work and Bellocq's Ophelia Jill Goad Chapter Four: Memory at Work: Docupoetry and the Mnemonic Labor of Women Samantha Allan Chapter Five: Decoration as a Form of Self-Care: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks's Black Female Domestic Workers Alicia Ye Sul Oh Part III: Immigrant Working Women in Metropolitans Chapter Six: Cutting and Contriving: Ulene Payne in Paule Marshall's Novel The Fisher King Margaret E. Salifu Chapter Seven: Wife, Woman, and Breadwinner: Nazneen Ahmed's Journey in a Foreign Land M. Anjum Khan Part IV: Visual Representation of Working Women Chapter Eight: (In)Visible Bodies: The Corporeal Representations of Working Women in Early 21st-Century American Primetime Drama Emilia Nodzak Chapter Nine: Working Black Women and the Performance of Racial Uplift in the Netflix Series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker Hatice Bay Chapter Ten: Clocking in and Clocking out: Roseanne and the Politics of Gendered Work in Its First Season Peter Piatkowski
