Linda Gordon
dal 6/3/2011 al 6/3/2011
Segnalato da
Museum of the City of New York
6/3/2011
Linda Gordon
Museum of the City, New York
Picturing Women in the Great Depression. The historian discusses the role gender played in New Yorkers' response to the economic crisis of the 1930s
Award-winning historian Linda Gordon discusses the role gender played in New Yorkers' response to the Great Depression. The popular image of women during the Great Depression is dominated by rural themes: mothers protecting their families from fierce dust storms and greedy bank managers, Ma Joad from The Grapes of Wrath, and Dorothea Lange's iconic "Migrant Mother." But as Denys Wortman's vivid slice-of-life cartoons of New York in the Great Depression show, urban women were also hit hard by the economic disaster. Award-winning historian Linda Gordon, author of "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits" (W.W. Norton, 2009), discusses the role gender played in Americans' response to the economic crisis of the 1930s. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Denys Wortman Rediscovered. Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953" (through Mar 20)