Women's Work: Essays in Cultural Studies

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Essays on lesser-known women's contributions to photography, popular art, poetry, humor, and personal history draw on primary materials and illustrate the cross-disciplinary nature of women's creative work. Subjects include the comic illustrations of Rose O'Neill, Southwest women photographers, the poetry of Alice Corbin Henderson, comic columnists since the Civil War, popular culture heroines and the evolution of the woman athlete, and the correspondence of poets May Sarton and Peggy Pond Church. Contains b&w illustrations. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)