{"product_id":"calling-home-janet-zandy-9780813515281","title":"Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings","description":"Working-class women are the majority of women in the United States, and yet their work and their culture are rarely visible. \u003ci\u003eCalling Home\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of writings by and about working-class women. Over fifty selections represent the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of working-class experience. This is writing grounded in social history, not in the academy. Traditional boundaries of genre and periodization collapse in this collection, which includes reportage, oral histories, speeches, songs, and letters, as well as poetry, stories, and essays. The divisions in this collection - telling stories, bearing witness, celebrating solidarity - address the distinction of \"by\" or \"about\" working-class women, and show the connections between individual identity and collective sensibility in a common history of struggle for economic justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The geography of home, identity, parents, sex, motherhood, the dominance of the job, the overlapping of private and public worlds, the promise of solidarity and community are a few of the themes of this book. Here is a chorus of working class women's voices: Sandra Cisneros, Barbara Garson, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Smith, Endesha I. M. Holland, Mother Jones, Nellie Wong, Agnes Smedley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Sharon Doubiago, Carol Tarlen, Hazel Hall, Margaret Randall, Judy Grahn, and many others  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The aesthetic impulse is shaped by class, but not limited to one ruling class. What connects these writers is a collective consciousness, a class, which rejects bondage and lays claim to liberation through all the possibilities of language. \u003ci\u003eCalling Home\u003c\/i\u003e is illustrated with family photographs as well as images of working women by professional photographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Zandy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813515289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813515281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.18w x 0.85d","brand":"Janet Zandy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44212992803071,"sku":"9780813515281","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b2529c9-ef46-4105-bbbf-7646eeda0a39.jpg?v=1692111441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/calling-home-janet-zandy-9780813515281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}