Women in Overalls

January 29, 2014 17:00

Published: January 14, 2014 16:14 by Sue Currell And Christopher Phelps |

Tagged as: communism culture gender history labour work

Places: nottingham of park university

Women in Overalls: Gender, Politics and American Magazine Culture

Dr. Sue Currell (University of Sussex), leading expert on 20th-century mass culture and president of the British Association for American Studies
in conversation with
Dr. Christopher Phelps (University of Nottingham), leading labour historian

January 29th, 5pm
Trent LG11

Come and hear Dr. Sue Currell discuss the contribution of female editors and writers to American communist magazine culture. She will focus on the New York based left-wing magazine New Masses (1926-1948), which was an arts and culture magazine promoting 'proletarianism'. Until now, the contributions of women to the art, content and style of the magazine, as well as their engagement with editorial practices and conflicts, has been entirely overlooked. Contrary to the association of 1930s 'proletarianism' with masculinity, the list of contributors included groundbreaking female authors and editors. Dr. Currell will explore the magazine's gender politics and the female communist legacy within left-wing politics into the late-1940s. A public conversation with Dr. Christopher Phelps and an audience Q&A will follow her special guest lecture.

For more info: www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/events/women-in-overalls-gender-politics-and-american-magazine-culture.aspx

Free and open to all, but please register here: http://currell.eventbrite.co.uk

 

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Contact email: zoe.trodd@nottingham.ac.uk

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