Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture

Provides a historical overview of women writers who anticipated issues about women's oppression and the intersections of gender, race, and class that would become central tenants of feminist literary criticism and black feminist criticism in the 1970s and 1980s. It closely considers works by writers both well-known and obscure, including Alice Childress, Martha Dodd, Sanora Babb, and Beth McHenry.