Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives

In this volume Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw, scholars of American Indian and women's literature, provide an edited sampling of interviews with Anglo, Indian, and African American women that were conducted by the Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma during the Great Depression....

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Published inJournal of Southern History Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 476 - 477
Main Author Stremlau, Rose
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston Southern Historical Association 01.05.2009
Subjects
African Americans
American Indians
Literary criticism
Mental depression
Narratives
Nonfiction
Verbal aggression
Women
Womens studies
Oklahoma
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Summary:In this volume Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw, scholars of American Indian and women's literature, provide an edited sampling of interviews with Anglo, Indian, and African American women that were conducted by the Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. The accounts in the fifth chapter, "Coping with Lawlessness," emphasize threats to women's well-being, while the excerpts collected in the sixth chapter, "Making a Life," suggest that family and community provided women's best protection and greatest comfort.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893