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Gender Trouble in The Long Day
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Dorothy Richardson’s popular 1905 novel The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl exemplifies turn-of-the-century America's cultural fascination with the oppression of marginalized people. The novel engages with the era's attraction to and anxiety about class, exposing poor working conditions for women in unskilled jobs and the near impossibility of surviving on their wages in much the same manner that Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed (2001) later would. Equally important, The Long Day’s attention to the intersection of class and gender, prescient for its time, enriches its examination of labor and distinguishes it from similarly structured narratives. Too long forgotten, The Long Day constitutes a potential ideological link between New Woman literature and socialist feminist writing.
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Compliation of Women related Papers and Poems
"I am stree, I am Strength, I am beauty, I am mother, I am calm". A woman may be defined in many more ways. This compilation consists of my various articles , published papers and Free Verse Poems from 2010-2024. Journey of my writings is on going. Hope the Compilation is helpful.