Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media

Hediye Özkan 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 Nodżak

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